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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
11/11/2020
A Diverse Cabinet will Make Joe Biden a Better President and Unify the Country
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
"Over the past 230 years, presidents have followed Washington’s lead, making increased diversity and representation of religions, backgrounds, genders and races a central part of the cabinet story."
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
11/10/2020
New Research Suggests Alexander Hamilton Was a Slave Owner
A recent paper by a researcher at th Schuyler Mansion looks into Alexander Hamilton's papers to argue that is reputation as an abolitionist is undeserved; he had personal dealings in purchasing enslaved laborers for his household.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/9/2020
Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes
A paper by a researcher at the Schuyler Mansion finds overlooked evidence in letters and Hamilton’s own account books indicating that he bought, sold and personally owned slaves.
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SOURCE: TIME
8/24/2020
How a Political Dispute Over the Early American Postal System Could Have Jeopardized the Whole U.S. Constitution
by Robert W.T. Martin
The nation has always depended on systems for sharing information and ideas. Disruptions to those systems can be devastating. Ask the Anti-Federalists.
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8/2/2020
Yes, Even George Washington Can Be Redeemed
by Richard Lim
While we cannot ignore Washingon's participation in slavery, we shouldn’t discount his remarkable transformation into someone who wished for its abolition and took steps personally to make things right, becoming the only major founder to free his slaves.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
7/3/2020
How to Remember the Founders
by Eli Merritt
The Fourth of July is not a day to celebrate the Founders themselves, nor white independence, but the bracing principles and “inalienable rights” they fought for: freedom, equality and justice.
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SOURCE: TIME
4/6/2020
States Can't Fight Coronavirus on Their Own—And the Founding Fathers Knew It
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
It’s a problem the nation’s founders could have foreseen. After all, they knew from experience that some problems can’t be dealt with on a state-by-state basis.
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3/27/2020
An Interview with "Most Wanted" Author Sarah Jane Marsh
by Chelsea Connolly
"Although I use individuals such as Adams, Hancock, and Paine as a vehicle for the story, I want readers to understand the American Revolution was ultimately a mass movement of the people."
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SOURCE: USA Today
1/23/20
Impeachment: Republicans are in the tank for Trump, but Democrats aren't impartial, either
by Jonathan Zimmerman
As of right now, I think Trump should be removed. But I must keep my mind open to new arguments and evidence, instead of closing myself off before we have heard them.
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SOURCE: AP
1/22/20
Trump’s Lawyers Say a Crime Is Required for Impeachment, But Experts Say That’s Not What Founding Fathers Intended
Featuring historians Rachel Shelden, Jeffrey Engel, and David Stewart.
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SOURCE: LA Times
12/26/19
Why demagogues were the Founding Fathers’ greatest fear
by Eli Merritt
Washington’s greatest fear that summer of decision in Philadelphia was that unwise, self-seeking politicians — even if fairly elected to public office — would tear down the central government and its constitutional laws for the sake of their own advancement and glorification.
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SOURCE: History.com
12/5/19
The Founding Fathers Feared Foreign Influence—And Devised Protections Against It
If the United States was going to be different, the framers needed a founding document that fully recognized and defended against the corrupting influence of foreign money and power, particularly on the president.
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12/1/2019
A Wealth Tax? Two Framers Weigh In
by Ray Raphael
Wealth taxes are on the current political table and hotly debated. All taxation was on the framers’ table as they considered a new constitution. What would they make of the measures we are considering now?
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11/24/19
Fake News and the Founders: Get Used to It!
by Harlow Giles Unger
Fake news did not diminish as the nation matured. Indeed, it became entwined in the nation’s literary fabric.
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