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Aaron Burr

Just how unprecedented was Trump’s federal indictment?

John Fea   |  June 20, 2023

Donald Trump is the first president or former president to face a federal indictment, but as Joshua Zeitz points out at Politico, a sitting vice-president and the president of the Confederacy faced treason charges. Here is a taste of Zeitz’s […]

“His rotundity” versus a supposed atheist and anarchist

John Fea   |  March 7, 2023

Over at his Substack, historian William Hogeland is telling “lurid tales” of American elections. He begins his series with the presidential election of 1796. Here is a taste of his post: Jefferson supporters, labeling Adams β€œHis Rotundity,” claimed that the […]

Even John Quincy and Louisa Adams could not resist the Aaron Burr charm offensive

John Fea   |  August 27, 2021

Gwen Fries of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society has a nice post on March 19, 1805 between John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams’s encounter with Aaron Burr a ship sailing from Baltimore to Philadelphia. Here is a […]

“If you stand for nothing Burr, what’ll you fall for?”

John Fea   |  May 12, 2021

Today’s GOP may want to listen to this Hamilton classic: