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Founders Chic

The Author’s Corner with Maurizio Valsania

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 24, 2022

Maurizio Valsania is Professor of American History at the University of Turin. This interview is based on his new book, First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: What led you...

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Academic historians debate the legacy of David McCullough

John Fea   |  August 31, 2022

Before the whole James Sweet presentism thing went down, American historians were on Twitter arguing about David McCullouugh. Over at History News Network, Rebecca Brenner Graham calls our attention to the debate that took place in the immediate wake of...

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The return of Ben Franklin

John Fea   |  April 5, 2022

Historian Joseph Adelman calls our attention to a small Ben Franklin revival. Here is his piece at Slate: Benjamin Franklin is having a moment. For decades he has hovered on the periphery of popular representations of the American founding. This...

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Thoughts on Trump’s Proposed “National Garden of American Heroes”

John Fea   |  July 6, 2020

  At his July 3, 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore, Donald Trump said: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alEE-5Pk5DQ&w=560&h=315] More here. And here is the text of the executive order: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws...

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Joseph Ellis’s New Book is About the Founding Fathers

John Fea   |  October 31, 2018

Ellis is a productive writer and historian, but I can’t keep up with all his books about the founding fathers.  Here is a taste of Jeff Shesol’s review of his latest: American Dialogue: The Founders and Us: If the historian Joseph J....

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Annette Gordon-Reed on "Hamilton"

John Fea   |  September 14, 2016

Hamilton the musical that is. In a recently published piece at Vox, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon-Reed argues that the “intense debates” surrounding the Lin Manuel-Miranda’s Broadway smash “don’t diminish the musical, they enrich it.” Here is a taste: Hamilton is...

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Religion and "Hamilton"

John Fea   |  September 7, 2016

In his review of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s Broadway hit “Hamilton,” Peter Manseau, the new curator of American religious history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, writes: “Miranda’s ingenious retelling of Revolutionary-era U.S. history studiously ignores common eighteenth-century notions of...

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Wait a Minute! Is "Founders Chic" Okay Now?

John Fea   |  April 21, 2016

Many historians who are fascinated with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton seem to be saying “yes.”  Others, like Ken Owen of The Junto, say “no.” For the last thirty years, social historians of the American experience have been ragging on something they...

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