Category: Federal period

Books: A Sovereign People and American Sanctuary

June 7, 2017

I picked up A. Rogers Ekirch’s American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution from my pile of books to read and I am sorry that I had not read it earlier.  As it happens I followed this up with Carol Berkin’s A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the … More Books: A Sovereign People and American Sanctuary

State of the Union

January 8, 2017

Today marks the anniversary of the first State of the Union speech given by an American President.  Washington fulfilled his constitutional mandate to tell Congress the state of the country at Federal Hall in New York City – our nation’s first capital. Unlike the presidents who would follow him Washington had a delicate task.  The … More State of the Union