George Washington’s First Final Farewell
A generation after George Washington’s Christmastime farewell to his troops and to the Congress who commissioned him in 1775, Clement Clarke Moore penned the iconic poem he called “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” but known to most as “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.”...
James Madison and the Case Against Compromise
Over the three days spanning from July 2 to July 5, 1787, the attendees at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia approved a resolution that would sufficiently satisfy the demands of delegates from small states for equality of representation and those from the...
Treason: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, and the Constitution
Aaron Burr’s disaffection with the federal government began during the election of 1800 when he was denied the presidency by the House of Representatives. After equaling Thomas Jefferson in the delegate count in the electoral college (each man received 73 electoral...