Now on video: The Constitution, Opportunity, and the End of the American Revolution
Here’s me delivering the 2015 John J. Zimmerman Memorial Lecture at Emporia State University, Sept. 16. The talk is titled “The Constitution, Opportunity, and the End of the American Revolution.”
The Founders Chic of Hamilton
Posted on October 9, 2015 at the NYU Press blog, From the Square Hamilton is the hottest ticket on Broadway. Anyone who’s been lucky enough to see it or hear it (here’s the soundtrack, for now) knows it’s thrilling. But Founders Chic, the recent worshiping of our illustrious nation-building heroes, has little to do with […]
Odd Couple II: New Gingrich and me in today’s WaPo
Yesterday’s odd couple was a feature of me and my book on the front page of the Sentinel-Tribune (my local paper) and a full-page Hobby Lobby ad on the back. Today, on the Washington Post Op-Ed page, I have a piece on how politicians use the founders, and New Gingrich has a piece… using the founders.
Odd couple: Me on the front page, Hobby Lobby on the back
Today the Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune published a nice profile (by David Dupont) of me and FIghting over the Founders, right on the front page. The Sent-Trib doesn’t publish on Sundays or holidays, so this is its “Independence Day Weekend Edition.” And, right on cue, just as I point out that people use the founders for their political purposes, there’s […]
Sons of Liberty review roundup
Now that the dust has settled, some guys wearing 18th-century portraits are done playing casual ballgames for the year, and we in northwest Ohio are buried under 10 feet inches of snow, it’s time to sift through the reviews of the History Channel’s Sons of Liberty series that aired last month.