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Aaron J. Palmer

Aaron J. Palmer

Aaron J. Palmer, Ph.D. (2009) Georgetown University is Associate Professor of History, Wisconsin Lutheran College and Co-Director of the college's Honors Program. He was a fellow of the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World and the author of A Rule of Law: Elite Political Authority and the Coming of the American Revolution in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1763-1776 (Leiden: Brill, 2014). He lives in West Allis, Wisconsin, and continues to research and write on colonial politics and the revolutionary era.

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Culture, Law, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) July 19, 2022 July 18, 2022

The 1775 Duel Between Henry Laurens and John Faucheraud Grimké

Charles Town, the metropolis of the South (today Charleston, South Carolina), was a leading location for duels in the late eighteenth century. One detailed…

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People May 17, 2017 April 21, 2017

“The Man Unmasked”:  Henry Laurens, Egerton Leigh, and the Making of a Revolutionary

Henry Laurens, one of colonial South Carolina’s wealthiest and most politically powerful planter-merchants, was a conservative by nature.[1]  When the imperial crisis began to…

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