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Alexander Hamilton — American patriot, financial genius, builder of the United States!

A book review of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (2004) This book is the most comprehensive biography of Alexander Hamilton released in modern times. It tells the story well and is written in florid detail supported by a fount of scholarly research and previously undisclosed material from Hamilton’s voluminous writings. Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) was born […]

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John Quincy Adams — From Child Prodigy and Diplomat to U.S President and Militant Abolitionist!

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John Quincy Adams (2012) by Harlow Giles Unger is a well written and well-researched book that brings to light the sixth president of the United States, and the only son of a Founding Father to become president — John Quincy Adams. The Adams family was not only to give birth to several American statesmen, but

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James Monroe — America’s Last Founding Father!

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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger (2009) is a well written and eloquently narrated book that goes a long way to accomplish what it set out to do — to make James Monroe, not only the last Founding Father, but also the greatest of the

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Slavery and the Civil War

Leave a Comment / General History, Random Notes / By Helen

With the recent commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, a number of journalists in their editorials (and even a historian, David Von Drehle, in a Time magazine article) attempted to assure us that they are setting the historic record straight — namely, that the paramount reason for the War Between the

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Faria: Freedom versus Equality (Part I)

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In the summer of 1787, as the Founders, led by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, concluded the drafting of the momentous Constitution of these United States, a Philadelphia lady at the steps of Independence Hall, asked, “Mr [Ben] Franklin, what kind of government have you given us?” He retorted, “a Republic, ma’am if you can

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The Founding Fathers, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Impeachment

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When our Founding Fathers met during the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (May-Sept. 1787), they established the impeachment process as the constitutional remedy for those public servants who would potentially violate the public trust. The impeachment process was part of the carefully crafted system of checks and balances, separation of powers, and limited

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Alexander Hamilton — American patriot, financial genius, builder of the United States!

John Quincy Adams — From Child Prodigy and Diplomat to U.S President and Militant Abolitionist!

James Monroe — America’s Last Founding Father!

Slavery and the Civil War

Faria: Freedom versus Equality (Part I)

The Founding Fathers, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Impeachment

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