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Tecumseh's Appeal - Ari Sclar
“The annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe…Our broad domains are fast escaping...


Joyce Appleby and the Federalists - Ari Sclar
Had the Federalists passed on their power to like-minded men in 1800, the course of economic development in the United States would have...


John Steele Gordon and Hamilton's Banking system
Unfortunately Thomas Jefferson was a better politician than Hamilton and a far better hater. The success of the Bank of the United...


Richard Hofstadter and the Founding Fathers
"[the Founders] did not believe in political parties as such, scorned those that they were conscious of as historical models, had a keen...


George Washington and War, 1778
“The necessity of putting the Army upon a respectable footing, both as to numbers and constitution, is now becoming more essential than...


To the Honourable Councel and House of Representatives in General Court for the State of Massachuset
The petition of several poor Negroes…we being chiefly of the African Extract and by Reason of Long Bondage and hard Slavery we have been...


John Marshall on George Washington
“the continent was divided into two great political parties, the one of which contemplated America as a nation, and labored incessantly...


Gordon Wood and Hamilton's program
“Although Hamilton’s financial program was designed with these moneyed interests in mind, it was never intended for their exclusive...


George Mason and the Constitution - Ari Sclar
There is no declaration of rights; and the laws of the general government being paramount [superior] to the laws and constitutions of the...


Americanus (1765) — by Ari Sclar
"It is a truth too universally known that the people of England are involved in a debt under which they struggle with the utmost...
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