Monthly Archives: May 2017

1.09 – Source Notes

May 28, 2017Uncategorizedpresidencies

“A tradition reduced.” The Economist. 423: 9038 [April 29-May 5, 2017] p. 19-20.
Allen, W B; and Seth Ames, eds. Works of Fisher Ames: Volume I. Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1983 [1854].
Allen, W B; and Seth Ames, eds. Works of Fisher Ames: Volume II. Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1983 [1854].
Bernhard, Winfred E A. Fisher Ames: Federalist and Statesman 1758-1808. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
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.
Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
Cunningham, Noble E, Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988 [1987].
Cunningham, Noble E, Jr. The Jeffersonian Republicans: The Formation of Party Organization 1789-1801. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1957.
Ellis, Joseph J. His Excellency George Washington. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2004.
Ferling, John. John Adams: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 [1992].
Fischer, David Hackett. The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
Hamilton, Alexander. “Final Version of the Report on the Establishment of a Mint, [28 January 1791],” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-0334-0004. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, September 1790 – January 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 570–607.] [Last Accessed: 9 May 2017]
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Jefferson, Thomas. “VII. Final State of the Report on Weights and Measures, [4 July 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-16-02-0359-0009. [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. 650–674.] [Last Accessed: 9 May 2017]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To Alexander Hamilton, 24 January 1791.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-0323. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, September 1790 – January 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 451–452.] [Last Accessed: 9 May 2017]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To George Mason, 4 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-19-02-0020. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 19, 24 January–31 March 1791, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974, pp. 241–243.] [Last Accessed: 30 Apr 2017]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To George Washington, 8 May 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-08-02-0129. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 8, 22 March 1791 – 22 September 1791, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 163–165.] [Last Accessed: 7 May 2017]
Jefferson, Thomas. “To Hugh Williamson, 1 April 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-23-02-0312. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 23, 1 January–31 May 1792, ed. Charles T. Cullen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 363.] [Last Accessed: 30 Apr 2017]
Knox, Henry. “[To George Washington,] Enclosure, 15 June 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-02-02-0357-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 2, 1 April 1789 – 15 June 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987, pp. 490–495.] [Last Accessed: 30 Apr 2017]
Lomask, Milton. Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President 1756-1805. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Rights of Man: Jefferson and His Time Volume Two. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co, 1951.
Nagel, Paul C. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997.
Peterson, Merrill D. “Thomas Jefferson and Commercial Policy, 1783-1793.” The William and Mary Quarterly. 22:4 [October 1965] p. 584-610.
Remini, Robert V. The House: The History of the House of Representatives. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Shalhope, Robert E. John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.
Treuer, Anton. Atlas of Indian Nations. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2013.
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White, Leonard D. The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History. New York: Macmillan Co, 1948.

1.09 – Agitations

May 28, 201701 - George WashingtonAaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Chancellor Robert Livingston, Elias Boudinot, Fisher Ames, Gazette of the United States, George Cabot, George Washington, Henry Lee, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, John Fenno, John Quincy Adams, John Taylor of Caroline, Maria Reynolds, National Gazette, Native Americans, Oliver Ellsworth, Philip Freneau, Philip Schuyler, Reynolds Affair, Rufus King, Samuel Johnston, State Department, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Treasury Department, War Department, William Loughton Smithpresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1789-1791

Increasingly during the Washington administration, tensions were beginning to build between pro-administration and anti-administration factions which would ultimately culminate in the development of the First Party System. This episode looks at some of the structural and cultural reasons for these divisions as well as some of the early leaders of the two factions including, of course Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Source information for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

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1.08 – Source Notes

May 14, 2017Uncategorizedpresidencies

Theodore Sedgwick by Edgar Parker [c. 1888], courtesy of Wikipedia

Achenbach, Joel. The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Adams, Abigail. “21-28 November 1790, to Abigail Adams Smith.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-09-02-0078. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 9, January 1790 – December 1793, ed. C. James Taylor, Margaret A. Hogan, Karen N. Barzilay, Gregg L. Lint, Hobson Woodward, Mary T. Claffey, Robert F. Karachuk, and Sara B. Sikes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009, pp. 149–151.] [Last Accessed: 24 Apr 2017]
Allen, W B; and Seth Ames, eds. Works of Fisher Ames: Volume I. Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1983 [1854].
Allen, W B; and Seth Ames, eds. Works of Fisher Ames: Volume II. Indianapolis, IN: LibertyClassics, 1983 [1854].
“The Bank Bill, [2 February] 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-13-02-0282. [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. 372–382.] [Last Accessed: 27 Apr 2017]
Bernhard, Winfred E A. Fisher Ames: Federalist and Statesman 1758-1808. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
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.
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Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
Coblenz, Michael. “The Fight Goes on Forever: ‘Limited Government’ and the First Bank of the United States.” Southern Illinois University Law Journal. 39:3 [Spring 2015] p. 391-451.
Davidson, James West, et al. Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, Volume One: To 1877. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill College, 1999 [1990].
Ferling, John. The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York, Berlin, and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Ferling, John. John Adams: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 [1992].
Green, Constance McLaughlin. Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962.
Hamilton, Alexander. “10 September 1790, to George Washington.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-0026. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, September 1790 – January 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 31–32.] [Last Accessed: 24 Apr 2017]
Hamilton, Alexander. “13 December 1790, Final Version: First Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017. http://founders.archive.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-0227-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, September 1790-January 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 225-236.] [Last Accessed: 24 Apr 2017]
Hamilton, Alexander. “13 December 1790, Final Version of the Second Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit (Report on a National Bank.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017. http://founders.archive.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-07-02-0229-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 7, September 1790-January 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, pp. 305-342] [Last Accessed: 24 Apr 2017]
Hamilton, Alexander. “23 February 1791, Final Version of an Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0060-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 8, February 1791 – July 1791, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, pp. 97–134.] [Last Accessed: 27 Apr 2017]
Hogeland, William. The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty. New York: Scribner, 2006.
Jefferson, Thomas. “29 August 1790, Memorandum to George Washington.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0176. [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. 368–370.] [Last Accessed: 19 Apr 2017]
Jefferson, Thomas. “15 February 1791, Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-19-02-0051. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 19, 24 January–31 March 1791, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974, pp. 275–282.] [Last Accessed: 27 Apr 2017]
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L’Enfant, Pierre Charles. “11 September 1789, to George Washington.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0010. [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. 15–19.] [Last Accessed: 19 Apr 2017]
Madison, James. “21 February 1791, Draft Veto of the Bank Bill.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-13-02-0295. [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. 395–396.] [Last Accessed: 27 Apr 2017]
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Rights of Man: Jefferson and His Time Volume Two. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co, 1951.
Marshall, John. The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Compiled Under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, From Original Papers Bequeathed to Him by His Deceased Relative: Volume II. Philadelphia, PA: James Crissy and Thomas, Cowperthwait and Co, 1843 [1831].
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Puls, Mark. Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Randolph, Edmund. “12 February 1791, Enclosure: Additional Considerations on the Bank Bill.” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified March 30, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0200-0003. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 1 December 1790 – 21 March 1791, ed. Jack D. Warren, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 337–340.] [Last Accessed: 27 Apr 2017]
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1.08 – Banking and Drinking

May 14, 201701 - George WashingtonAbigail Adams, Alexander Hamilton, District of Columbia, Edmund Randolph, First Bank of the United States, First Congress, Fisher Ames, George Clinton, George Washington, James Madison, Martha Washington, New York City, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Theodore Sedgwick, Thomas Jefferson, Vermont, Whiskey Excise Tax, William Maclaypresidencies