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1.15 – Source Notes

August 20, 2017Uncategorizedpresidencies

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Bernhard, Winfred E A. Fisher Ames: Federalist and Statesman 1758-1808. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
“Cabinet Opinions on the Debt to France, 25 February 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0237. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, 1 January–10 May 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, p. 260.] [Last Accessed: 9 Aug 2017]
Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Chernow, Ron. Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
“Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Questions and Observations on the Application of France,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0163-0001. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, 1 January–10 May 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 172–174.] [Last Accessed: 9 Aug 2017]
Ferling, John. The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York, Berlin, and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington: Anguish and Farewell (1793-1799). Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Co, 1972 [1969].
Jefferson, Thomas. “To Gouverneur Morris, 12 March 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archive.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0330. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, 1 January-10 May 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 367-370.] [Last Accessed: 7 Aug 2017]
Leepson, Marc. Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Morris, Gouverneur. “To George Washington, 6 January 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-11-02-0378. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 16 August 1792 – 15 January 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 593–594.] [Last Accessed: 9 Aug 2017]
Provincial Executive Council of France. ““To George Washington, 30 December 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-11-02-0353. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 11, 16 August 1792 – 15 January 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 566–568.] [Last Accessed: 9 Aug 2017]
Randolph, Edmund. “To George Washington, 6 May 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0429. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 12, 16 January 1793 – 31 May 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick and John C. Pinheiro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005, pp. 534–548.] [Last Accessed: 10 Aug 2017]
Reardon, John J. Edmund Randolph: A Biography. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co, 1974.
Rogers, George C, Jr. Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758-1812). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1967 [1962].
Smith, Richard Norton. Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1993.
“Treaty of Alliance Between The United States and France; February 6, 1778.” The Avalon Project. Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fr1788-2.asp. [Last Accessed: 1 Aug 2017]
“Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France; February 6, 1778.” The Avalon Project. Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fr1788-1.asp [Last Accessed: 10 Aug 2017]
Twohig, Dorothy, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President 1793-1797: The Papers of George Washington. W W Abbot, ed. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1981.
Washington, George. “To Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0353. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 12, 16 January 1793 – 31 May 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick and John C. Pinheiro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005, pp. 448–449.] [Last Accessed: 3 August 2017]
Washington, George. “To the Cabinet, 18 April 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0358. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 12, 16 January 1793 – 31 May 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick and John C. Pinheiro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005, pp. 452–454.] [Last Accessed: 9 Aug 2017]
Washington, George. “Proclamation 4—Neutrality of the United States in the War Involving Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands Against France,” April 22, 1793. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=65475. [Last Accessed: 31 Jul 2017]
Winik, Jay. The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008 [2007].

1.15 – It’s Not Easy Being Neutral

August 20, 201701 - George WashingtonAlexander Hamilton, Democratic-Republican Party, Edmund Charles Genet, Edmund Randolph, France, George Hammond, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, Great Britain, Henry Knox, Louis XVI, Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jeffersonpresidencies

Combat Between the Frigate ‘L’Embuscade’ and the ‘Boston’ in the Port of New York in 1793 by Jean Antoine Théodore de Gudin, courtesy of Wikipedia

Year(s) Discussed: 1791-1793

The British and French are at war, and the Washington administration is caught in the middle. Though the US government had established a Treaty of Alliance with the French back in the Revolutionary War, the administration had to question whether the new French republican government was in fact valid and whether the US was still bound by the treaty made with the government of the recently executed Louis XVI. However, they are given little time to consider the situation as French ships start capturing British vessels off the coast of North America and bringing them into Philadelphia harbor. Washington wants to stay out of it, but will the European powers force his hand? Source information for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

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1.14 – Source Notes

August 6, 2017Uncategorizedpresidencies

The Senate Chamber, Congress Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Audio editing done by Andrew Pfannkuche.

Bedini, Silvio A. “Benjamin Banneker and the Survey of the District of Columbia, 1791.” Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 69/70 (1969/1970) 7-30.
Boles, John B. Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
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.
Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington: Anguish and Farewell (1793-1799). Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Co, 1972 [1969].
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man. New York, Boston, and London: Little, Brown and Co, 1976 [1969].
Good, Cassandra. “’Determined to be Cheerful’: The Emotional Work of the Washingtons as First Family.” SHEAR Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 21 Jul 2017.
Green, Constance McLaughlin. Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962.
Jefferson, Thomas. “To George Washington, 9 September 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0330. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 24, 1 June–31 December 1792, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, pp. 351–360.] [Last Accessed: 26 Jul 2017]
Landry, Jerry. The Presidencies of the United States Podcast. 2017. http://presidencies.blubrry.com.
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Three. Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1962.
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.
Seale, William. The President’s House: A History, Volume One. Washington, DC: White House Historical Association, 1986.
Washington, George. “To David Stuart, 20 November 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-09-02-0118. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 23 September 1791 – 29 February 1792, ed. Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 209–214.] [Last Accessed: 26 Jul 2017]
Washington, George. “Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1793. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25801. [Last Accessed: 25 Jul 2017]

1.14 – The Second Inaugural

August 6, 201701 - George WashingtonAbraham Venable, Alexander Hamilton, Election of 1792, Fisher Ames, Frederick Muhlenberg, Gazette of the United States, George Beckwith, George Hammond, George Washington, Great Britain, James Madison, James Monroe, James Reynolds, John Beckley, John Fenno, Maria Reynolds, Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, National Gazette, Oliver Wolcott Jr, Philip Freneau, Thomas Jefferson, Washington DC, William Branch Gilespresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1791-1793

The lead up to Washington’s second inaugural ended up being much more dramatic than anyone could have imagined as personal conflicts threatened the construction of the Federal City, Hamilton’s affair with Maria Reynolds threatened to be made public knowledge, and Representative William Branch Giles filed resolutions against Hamilton accusing him of official misconduct and calling for his dismissal. In the middle of all this, a reluctant president turns to his family for support as he prepares himself for what already appears will be a more turbulent four years ahead than his first term had been. Source information can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

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