Colonial History 
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
8/3/2022
Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over the Dark Side of Puritanism
by Peter Laarman
A minister and activist argues that the novelist and essayist's defense of the New England Puritans as prototypical human rights heroes ignores the very clear limits that historians have identified for Puritanism's conceptions of social belonging.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
8/16/2021
What an Englishwoman’s Letters Reveal About Life in Britain During the American Revolution
by Julie Flavell
"Jane was convinced that her husband had embarked on a humanitarian errand. She believed the British war machine that carried him to New York was not intended to drive the Americans to desperation, but to force them to the negotiating table."
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/13/2021
Douthat: The War that Made Our World
Columnist Ross Douthat argues that greater attention to the French and Indian War can support a view of history that embraces the complexity of the past without falling into simplistic patriotism or cynicism.
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SOURCE: Law & Liberty
6/22/2020
A Master Historian at Work
by George H. Nash
The award-winning historian's reflections on the writing and teaching of history offer a master class in the scholar's art.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
9/8/19
The Electoral College was Terrible from the Start
by Garrett Epps
Epps doubts that Alexander Hamilton could foresee the consequences of an electoral college.
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SOURCE: The New York Review of Books
July 18, 2019
Which Way to the City on a Hill?
by Marilynne Robinson
A brief history of John Winthrop and the misconceptions of "A City on a Hill".
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