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".