Friday, April 26, 2019

A review of “Egypt's Golden Empire” (PBS Empires)

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The Egyptian language might have been the first language in human history to have been written down . (Although some scholars have argued...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

A review of “Peter & Paul and the Christian Revolution” (PBS Empires)

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“Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cæsar .” – The New Testament, “The ...
Friday, April 19, 2019

A review of “Rebels & Redcoats: How Britain Lost America”

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“... That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Giving Congress the power to coin money was a break with British precedents

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“The coining of money is in all states the act of the sovereign power; for the reason just mentioned, that it's value may be known on...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

How to write a killer history paper

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You've probably heard of the six “journalist's questions”: who, what, when, where, how, and why. To a large degree, they are also ...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

What's the difference between the presidency and the prior British monarchy?

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“The supreme executive power of these kingdoms is vested by our laws in a single person, the king or queen : for it matters not to which...

How did the Founding Fathers use Blackstone's writings about the monarchy?

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“The office of president is treated with levity and intimated to be a machine calculated for state pageantry. Suffer me to view the comma...