Monthly Archives: April 2017

1.07 – Source Notes

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Josiah Harmar by Raphaelle Peale [c. 1799-1803], courtesy of Wikipedia
State Land Claims and Cessions to the Federal Government, 1782-1802 by Kmusser, courtesy of Wikipedia
States and Territories of the United States of America – May 26, 1790 to March 4, 1791 by Golbez, courtesy of Wikipedia
Map of Harmar’s Defeat from Benson J Lossing’s The Pictoral Field-Book of the War of 1812, courtesy of Wikipedia
Map of St. Clair’s Encampment and Retreat, courtesy of Wikipedia
  • Achenbach, Joel. The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
  • Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2000.
  • Barnhart, John D, and Dorothy L Riker. Indiana to 1816: The Colonial Period. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Bureau & Indiana Historical Society, 1971.
  • Booraem, Hendrik, V. A Child of the Revolution: William Henry Harrison and His World, 1773-1798. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2012.
  • Bordewich, Fergus M. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
  • Calloway, Colin G. The Victory With No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • Cayton, Andrew R L. “’Separate Interests’ and the Nation-State: The Washington Administration and the Origins of Regionalism in the Trans-Appalachian West.” The Journal of American History. 79:1. Jun 1992. p. 39-67.
  • Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
  • Davis, Edwin Adams. Louisiana: The Pelican State. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1961 [1959].
  • Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York and London: W W Norton & Co, 2010.
  • Eid, Leroy V. “American Indian Military Leadership: St. Clair’s 1791 Defeat.” The Journal of Military History. 57:1. Jan 1993. p. 71-88.
  • Furlong, Patrick J. “Problems of Frontier Logistics in St. Clair’s 1791 Campaign.” Selected Papers from the 1983 and 1984 George Rogers Clark Trans-Appalachian Frontier History Conferences. 23 Mar 2011. http://npshistory.com/series/symposia/george_rogers_clark/1983-1984/sec6.htm. [Last Accessed: 4 Apr 2017]
  • Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello.
  • “Josiah Harmar.” Ohio History Central. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Josiah_Harmar. [Last Accessed: 5 Apr 2017]
  • Larson, Edward J. The Return of George Washington, 1783-1789. New York: HarperCollins, 2014.
  • Puls, Mark. Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • Smith, William Henry, ed. The Life and Public Services of Arthur St. Clair, Soldier of the Revolutionary War; President of the Continental Congress; and Governor of the North-Western Territory with his Correspondence and other Papers, Volume II. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke & Co, 1882.
  • Warner, Michael S. “General Josiah Harmar’s Campaign Reconsidered: How the Americans Lost the Battle of Kekionga.” Indiana Magazine of History. 83:1. Mar 1987. P. 43-64. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/rt/printerFriendly/10767/15243.
  • Washington, George. “6 October 1789, to Arthur St Clair.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified February 21, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0097. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 4, 8 September 1789 – 15 January 1790, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 140–144.] [Last Accessed: 19 Mar 2017]
  • Washington, George. “19 Nov 1790, to Henry Knox.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0323. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 6, 1 July 1790 – 30 November 1790, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, pp. 668–670.]
  • White, Leonard D. The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History. New York: Macmillan Co, 1948.

1.07 – Arthur St Clair: Worst. General. Ever.

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Arthur St Clair by Charles Willson Peale (c. 1782), courtesy of Wikipedia

Year(s) Discussed: 1789-1792

While Congress deliberates on the course of the nation in New York, settlers in the frontier were forging ahead with their own future beyond the Appalachian mountains. In this episode, we look at the development of territories in the west and discuss how the Washington administration prioritized affairs in the region. The military’s role in the area is discussed at some length including the not-so-stellar outcomes of two campaigns against native peoples in the Northwest Territory and what impact this would have on the administration and the nation. Source information for this episode as well as supplementary maps can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

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1.06 – Source Notes

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Robert Morris by Robert Edge Pine (c. 1785), courtesy of Wikipedia
  • Bixby, William K, and William H Samson, eds. Letters from George Washington to Tobias Lear with an Appendix Containing Miscellaneous Washington Letters and Documents. Rochester, NY: Genesee Press, 1905.
  • Bordewich, Fergus M. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
  • Bowling, Kenneth R. “Dinner at Jefferson’s: A Note on Jacob E Cooke’s ‘The Compromise of 1790.’” The William and Mary Quarterly. Third Series. 28:4 (Oct 1971), p. 629-648.
  • Brady, Patricia. Martha Washington: An American Life. New York: Penguin Books, 2006 [2005].
  • Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
  • Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
  • Cooke, Jacob E. “The Compromise of 1790.” The William and Mary Quarterly. Third Series. 27:4 (Oct 1970), p. 523-545.
  • Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988 [1987].
  • Hall, Kermit L, etc, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Jefferson, Thomas. “20 June 1790, to James Monroe.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-16-02-0312. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 16, 30 November 1789–4 July 1790, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 536–538.]
  • Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994 [1971].
  • Keyes, Nelson Beecher. Ben Franklin: An Affectionate Portrait. Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1956.
  • Lancaster, Bruce. From Lexington to Liberty: The Story of the American Revolution. Lewis Gannett, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1955.
  • Landry, Jerry. The Presidencies of the United States Podcast. 2017.
  • Madison, James. “22 June 1790, to Edmund Pendleton.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-13-02-0177. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 13, 20 January 1790 – 31 March 1791, ed. Charles F. Hobson and Robert A. Rutland. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981, pp. 252–253.] [Last Accessed: 17 Mar 2017]
  • Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Rights of Man: Jefferson and His Time Volume Two. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co, 1951.
  • McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of George Washington. Lawrence, KS; Manhattan, KS; and Wichita, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 1974 [1974].
  • Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. New York: Random House, 2012.
  • Preston, Daniel, ed. The Papers of James Monroe, Volume 2: Selected Correspondence and Papers, 1776-1794. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2006.
  • Reardon, John J. Edmund Randolph: A Biography. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co, 1974.
  • Risjord, Norman K. “The Compromise of 1790: New Evidence on the Dinner Table Bargain.” The William and Mary Quarterly. Third Series. 33:2 (Apr 1976), p. 309-314.
  • Shalhope, Robert E. John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.
  • Washington, George. “To Thomas Jefferson, 21 January 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified February 21, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-05-02-0019. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 5, 16 January 1790 – 30 June 1790, ed. Dorothy Twohig, Mark A. Mastromarino, and Jack D. Warren. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, pp. 29–31.] [Last Accessed: 11 Mar 2017]
  • White, Leonard D. The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History. New York: Macmillan Co, 1948.
  • Winik, Jay. The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800. New York: HarperCollins, 2008 [2007].

1.06 – Assumption, Presumption, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

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Tench Coxe by Benson John Lossing (c. 1859), courtesy of Wikipedia

Year(s) Discussed: 1790

The new government of the United States comes grinding to a halt in the spring and summer of 1790 as Congress reaches an impasse on both Hamilton’s proposed public credit scheme and the decision of where the new government should be permanently located. Ultimately, a decision is reached on both, but how it came about is rather complicated. If you’ve ever heard of the Compromise of 1790, then you’ll want to listen to this episode as there’s more to the story than has been told over the years. Meanwhile, health concerns plague a couple of major American figures, bringing even more uncertainty to an already unstable time. All the big players are in this one – Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Knox, and, of course, Mr. President. Source information for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

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1.05 – Source Notes

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Federal Hall (Old City Hall), Wall Street, New York City – Robert Hinshelwood (c. 1855-1859) courtesy of Wikimedia
  • Abernethy, Thomas P. The South in the New Nation 1789-1819. [Baton Rouge, LA]: Louisiana State University Press, 1961.
  • Bordewich, Fergus M. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
  • Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
  • Hamilton, Alexander. “Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit, [9 January 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0076-0002-0001. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 65–110.] [Last Accessed: 11 Feb 2017)
  • Historical Currency Converter (test version 1.0). http://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html. [Last Accessed: 17 Feb 2017)
  • Kaplan, Lawrence S. Alexander Hamilton: Ambivalent Anglophile. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2002.
  • Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994 [1971].
  • Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Rights of Man: Jefferson and His Time Volume Two. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co, 1951.
  • McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of George Washington. Lawrence, KS; Manhattan, KS; and Wichita, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 1974 [1974].
  • Nester, William. The Hamiltonian Vision, 1789-1800: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic. Washington, DC: Potomac Books,
  • Nettels, Curtis P. The Emergence of a National Economy: The Economic History of the United States, Volume II. White Plains, NY: M E Sharpe Inc, 1962.
  • US Debt Clock. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ [Last Accessed: 17 Feb 2017]

1.05 – Take This Report and File It

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Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull (1806) courtesy of Wikimedia

Year(s) Discussed: 1790

Hamilton’s Report on the Public Credit is sent to Congress in January 1790 and immediately causes an uproar. As congressmen divide into pro and anti-administration factions on this issue, I take a closer look in this episode at the report and Hamilton’s proposals on how to deal with the public credit in order to ensure “the honor and prosperity of the United States” as well as what James Madison thought of Hamilton’s ideas. Source information for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

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