Despite incessant disappointment, he doggedly pursued a position. Each morning, he left his boardinghouse at eight o’clock, clothed in a dark suit with a high collar and black tie, to make his rounds...
The practice of mankind ought to have great weight against the theories of individuals.
Between 1789 and 1791, France basked in some sort of liberal pleasure garden before the erection of the guillotine is a complete fantasy.
All show of decorum
While Grant was celebrated as a victorious wartime general and the president who had peacefully settled the Alabama claims, most gratifying to him was being honored as the protector of freed people. A...
This, I confess, hurts my feelings, and if it obtains credit will require a contradiction,
The strident tone of The Stand reflects the polarization that had gripped America over the French crisis. Feelings ran so high that Jefferson told one correspondent, Men who have been intimate all the...
The residence law that passed Congress in July 1790, establishing Philadelphia as the interim capital, dictated that all government offices relocate there by early December.
The issue is much more complicated than that, but there’s no doubt that Rockefeller’s achievement arose from the often tense interplay between the two opposing, deeply ingrained tendencies of his natu...
The campaign’s most chilling feature was the huge wave of murder and arson orchestrated by the Ku Klux Klan against black and white Republicans in the South. As state conventions drafted new constitut...
The blessings and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary, but especially so in times of public distress and danger, he assured his men, hoping that every officer and man will endeavor so to l...
Robert Troup said that Hamilton rejected fees if they were larger than he thought warranted and generally favored arbitration or amicable settlements in lieu of lawsuits.
On March 15, Washington addressed the officers, determined to squash a reported scheme to march on Congress. For the first time, he confronted a hostile audience of his own men. Washington sternly reb...
On December 12, 1799, Washington sent Hamilton a letter applauding his outline for an American military academy: The establishment of an institution of this kind . . . has ever been considered by me a...
John Adams was sworn in as the second president on March 4, 1797,
In fact, Washington wasn’t nonchalant and could be exacting and quick to take offense.
Hamilton was more persuasive than he realized, and a delegation of business leaders soon approached him to subscribe to a money-bank that would thwart Livingston’s land bank. I was a little embarrasse...
Because Conway persisted in maligning Washington, he was summoned to the dueling ground by General John Cadwalader, who fired a ball through Conway’s mouth that came out the back of his head. Cadwalad...
At a time of tremendous ideological cleavages,
Yellow-fever epidemic of 1798 that had claimed the lives of Benjamin Franklin Bache and John Fenno had also given fresh urgency to the work of the Widows Society, as many women lost their family bread...