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Thursday, January 02, 2020
“Aged SAM. in dotage frail”?
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Yesterday I quoted some lines from Dr. Lemuel Hopkins ’s poem welcoming the year 1795 for the Connecticut Courant . Having praised Feder...
Monday, November 07, 2016
“As they were not reasoned up, they cannot be reasoned down”
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In 1721, the Rev. Jonathan Swift published A Letter to a Young Clergyman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders, by a Person of Quality . It inc...
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Friday, September 14, 2012
“Inn-keeping was a favorite occupation”
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Earlier this month, Dr. Sam Foreman shared a draft of the Suffolk Resolves, written mostly by Dr. Joseph Warren . That document is headed: ...
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Monday, September 07, 2009
A Federalist Picture Book
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Jacqueline Jules and Jef Czekaj ’s picture book Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation acknowledges Anti-Federalist sentiment i...
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