Whether acting as a military officer or civilian officeholder, George Washington did not possess a reputation for glad handing, easy confidences, or even much warmth. His greatest attributes as a commander might well have been his firm command over his own emotions and the way i…
"In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washi…
The following study is an intellectual and political study on the passionate attachment that nineteenth century Americans had to the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution. To Americans living during the antebellum period, the Founding Fathers were larger than life idols wh…
The post-revolutionary sons of America embraced the legacy of the Founding Fathers even as they resisted the authority of those fathers, deemed prescriptive and stifling. My dissertation argues that this ambivalence precipitated a crisis in antebellum consciousness in which simu…
"Theistic rationalism introduced -- "Divine" sources of theistic rationalism -- Theistic rationalism in the revolutionary pulpit -- The theistic rationalism of John Adams -- The theistic rationalism of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin -- The theistic rationalism of the key…
Biographers, journalists, and satirists have long used the subject of sex to define the masculine character and political authority of America's Founding Fathers. Tracing these commentaries on the Revolutionary era's major political figures in Sex and the Founding Fathers, Thoma…
American schools are in a state of crisis.At the root of our current perplexity, beneath the difficulties with funding, social problems, and low test scores, festers a serious uncertainty as to what the focus and goals of education should be. We are increasingly haunted by the s…
"By analyzing Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's public documents, private writings, and political actions, Muñoz explains the founders' competing church-state political philosophies."--Page [i].
"By analyzing Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's public documents, private writings, and political actions, Muñoz explains the founders' competing church-state political philosophies."--Page i
"In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and the other founding fathers faced a defining problem. What should be the new republic's strategy toward the revolution roiling in …
In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? F…
