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Problem with Popular Politics
The common assumption is that the Founders… disliked popular politics because they were elitists, even aristocratic. Many Americans grow old believing that the Founding generation opposed popular...
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The Neo-Nationalist Creed
Progressive historians like Charles Beard… went to great lengths to discredit the work of America’s first published historian, George Bancroft. The Nationalist school of American history revered our...
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Cared and Loved Deeply
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson is not likely remembered… on her birthday- it is too close to the sad spectacle that is Halloween and she seems an inconvenient part of a private life made all too...
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Making the Most of a Bad Situation
“Speaking generally, no penance is like having one’s picture done. You must sit in a constrained and unnatural position, which is a trial to the temper. But I should like to sit to Stuart from the...
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The Neo-Nationalist Creed
Progressive historians like Charles Beard… went to great lengths to discredit the work of America’s first published historian, George Bancroft. The Nationalist school of American history revered our...
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Problem with Popular Politics
The common assumption is that the Founders… disliked popular politics because they were elitists, even aristocratic. Many Americans grow old believing that the Founding generation opposed popular...
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On Loss
The grieving optimist- Jefferson lost nearly everyone dear to him…. so he could relate grief to his dear friend, John Adams upon hearing of the death of Abigail. Relating grief is not the same as...
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