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Why we study Western Civ.(Civilization)
A FEW years ago, I gave a talk to an audience in a small German town based on a book I had written about a prominent but dysfunctional family that had lived there 450 years earlier. When asked how I came upon and researched this story, I described a three-year period in which I spent fully as many waking hours reading and pondering the remains of my sixteenth-century subjects as I did in dealing with my daily life in present-day America. The next morning the headline over my photograph in the local newspaper read: "This is a Man From the Sixteenth Century." Although not such for the local journalist, certainly for a historian there could not have been a greater compliment! ...
- The Perils of Partisan History.(Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Shain, Barry January 1, 2003 700+ words
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THE PERSISTENCE...336 pp. $34.95. ALEXANDER HAMILTON and the Persistence...but neither about Alexander Hamilton nor the persistence...concerned with American history--more specifically...
- History of Alexander Hamilton hosted by Decatur Public Library.
- Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) September 13, 2006 700+ words
...13--DECATUR -- Alexander Hamilton's legacy to the...free exhibition, "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made...refreshments. "Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown...Institute of American History in New York City...
- Writings of Alexander Hamilton reaffirm his place in history: the long-overdue...
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Owens, Mackubin Thomas January 28, 2002 700+ words
...the reputation of Alexander Hamilton has fluctuated the...Hamilton's place in history, one would think...Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton, edited by Morton...assistant professor of history at Yale. Arranged...
- One great room: a descendant of Alexander Hamilton lives with history.
- Magazine article from: Sarasota Magazine Tisch, Carol November 1, 2006 700+ words
...says Steve, an architecture and history buff whose great-great-great-great...grandfather was Federalist Party founder Alexander Hamilton and whose mother's family goes back...Hamiltons have incorporated bits of history throughout their new home. An eclectic...
- Political giant overlooked: Alexander Hamilton, who shaped U.S. history, had...
- Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY) January 12, 2007 700+ words
...would have been his 250th birthday, Alexander Hamilton was a forgotten figure in the city...connection awaits a rejuvenation. "Alexander Hamilton is a wonderful subject through which...salute What: 250th birthday party for Alexander Hamilton When: 2 p.m., Jan. 21 Where...
- A missed shot at treason: Aaron Burr is known for killing Alexander Hamilton...
- Magazine article from: The New American Telzrow, Michael E. April 30, 2007 700+ words
...Burr, a man known more for his role in the killing of Alexander Hamilton than for conspiring to create a nation within a nation...But first he would settle old scores with his nemesis, Alexander Hamilton. It was Hamilton's behind-the-scenes machinations...
- An affair of honor: in the summer of 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr challenged...
- Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic Landauro, Victor November 29, 2002 700+ words
...July 11, 1804, U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, a former delegate to the Constitutional Convention...President (1801-1805) under President Thomas Jefferson. Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury, had...
- Scholar, soldier, statesman: if James Madison represents the cool,...
- Magazine article from: The New American Wolverton, Joe, II March 20, 2006 700+ words
Alexander Hamilton was born in 1757 on the British West Indian island of Nevis into...Alexander was born he had squandered his family's modest wealth. Alexander Hamilton was known to have remarked that he had more claim to royal title...