New England statesman Daniel Webster believed in strong, centralized power when it served his region’s interests. For...
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The committee delegated Thomas Jefferson to undertake the task, and he worked diligently in private for days...
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Forensic medicine, also called “medical jurisprudence” or “legal medicine,” emerged in the 1600s. The Rise of Forensics...
From gruesome, public executions to Georgian Britain’s adoration of the ‘heroic’ highwayman, the author investigates attitudes to...
A scheming and salacious newspaper reporter targeted Hamilton and Jefferson – and nearly ruined them. It is...
In 1758, Samuel Johnson noted that the “itch of scribbling” had seized the nation. Introduction In 1758,...