Newly uncovered Hamilton records relating to the Constitutional Convention and New York Ratification Convention Late breaking news (developing story) Draft Post by…
Newly uncovered Hamilton records relating to the Constitutional Convention and Annapolis Convention Late breaking news (developing story) This week, working…
The following PowerPoint will be presented at the Florida Council on History Education annual conference on July 31 by Adam…
Hamilton at the Philadelphia Convention During the Revolutionary War Alexander Hamilton was one of the first to publicly recognize the…
Shays’ Rebellion: the laws that provoked the revolt (and the laws that succeeded in suppressing it) Why were Massachusetts farmers…
Shays’ Rebellion and the Founders (Part I) Beginning in the fall of 1786 until it was crushed in early 1787,…
THE NEW YORK ANTI-FEDERALIST PLAN TO SABOTAGE ALEXANDER HAMILTON AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION On March 6, 1787, the New York…
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 (the Civil Rights Act of 1871) 17. Stat. 13; Forty-Second Congress, Session 1, Ch. 22]…
James Wilson’s introductory law lecture to President Washington, Congress and other esteemed guests At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 15,…
The History of Executive Orders Two months after being inaugurated, George Washington issued his first Executive Order on June 8,…