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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.