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Geoff Smock

Geoff Smock

Geoff is a native of western Washington and is a lifelong student of the American Revolution. He received a degree in History from Pacific Lutheran University and a M.Ed from the University of Washington. He currently teachers 8th grade social studies and literacy outside of Seattle. In addition to exploring history with his students, he hopes to research and publish on the Revolutionary generation and its most interesting people and events in the future. When not nose-deep in history books, he spends his time with his face painted blue, gray, and green at Seahawks games with his dad and brothers.

Features February 7, 2022 February 6, 2022

Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders

BOOK REVIEW:  Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021) I feel dutybound…

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Autobiography and Biography, Economics, Features, Reviews September 8, 2021 September 3, 2021

Review: Radical Hamilton

BOOK REVIEW: Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons From a Misunderstood Founder by Christian Parenti (New York: Verso, 2020) Alexander Hamilton’s legacy has undergone a radical shift…

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Features, People, Reviews, The War Years (1775-1783) March 29, 2021 March 25, 2021

Review: Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr

Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr: The Revolutionary War Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Arthur S. Lefkowitz (Stackpole Books, 2020) Students of…

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Letters and Correspondence, People March 15, 2021 March 14, 2021

Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Teenage Thomas Jefferson

Within the pantheon of Founding Fathers, only George Washington was more impenetrable than was Thomas Jefferson—then and now. The man who would come to…

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Critical Thinking, Illness and Disease, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) July 9, 2020 July 7, 2020

Did Yellow Fever Save the United States?

To Thomas Jefferson, great plagues were within the genus of republican antibodies. Like the occasional popular insurrection that warned rulers “the spirit of resistance”…

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Constitutional Debate, Law, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) June 30, 2020 June 29, 2020

John Marshall: Hamilton 2.0

Celebrated for his stirring words in the Declaration of Independence, and having profited upon the popularity since, Thomas Jefferson was now America’s chief magistrate—and…

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Critical Thinking, Illness and Disease, Postwar Politics (>1783), Primary Sources May 14, 2020 May 11, 2020

Thomas Jefferson and the Public Benefits of Epidemics

An epidemic that violently attacks public health—that sickens and takes lives; that cripples our economy; that forces us into our homes; that turns cities…

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Economics, Features, Reviews January 15, 2020 January 15, 2020

Hamilton Versus Wall Street: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics

Hamilton Versus Wall Street: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics by Nancy Bradeen Spannaus (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2019) “The purpose of this book,”…

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Diplomacy, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783) July 18, 2019 July 17, 2019

Strange Bedfellows: Adams and Franklin as Diplomatic Duo

Close the window. No, leave the window open. Cold night air can be toxic to one’s health. No, what’s truly toxic is stifled, fetid…

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Constitutional Debate, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Postwar Politics (>1783) March 26, 2019 March 25, 2019

Hamilton’s Revenge

Having just attained his thirteenth (or eleventh) birthday, he found himself confined to a bed on the second floor of a small two-story house…

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Constitutional Debate, Features, People, Politics August 21, 2018 August 19, 2018

The Counterbalance: Explaining James Madison

The charge was leveled often in his own time, as it has been ever since: James Madison is and was a hypocrite—a man inconstant…

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Culture, Features, People April 26, 2018 April 25, 2018

Jefferson’s Reckoning: The Sage of Monticello’s Haunting Final Years

It was a mountaintop idyll; a luxuriant bath in the affirming glow of acclaim; a sunset valediction. Or so it was to Saul K….

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People October 16, 2017 October 7, 2017

From Wannabe Redcoat to Rebel: George Washington’s Journey to Revolution

From the ministry’s point of view, affairs in America really were quite appalling. The unpardonable brashness of a cocksure young provincial had instantly escalated…

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Postwar Politics (>1783) March 14, 2017 March 12, 2017

Experience, Policies, Failures: President Washington & the Native Americans

Experience had taught George Washington a great many things. His father had passed away at a young age, denying him the chance for the…

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People February 23, 2017 February 22, 2017

John Adams: Portrait of the Founder as a Young Schoolmaster

Before ever he was a president, vice president, ambassador, Continental Congressmen, or Massachusetts lawyer, John Adams was a schoolmaster in a rural hamlet in…

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Prewar Politics (<1775) January 12, 2017 November 28, 2016

Blame Canada: The Quebec Act & the American Revolution

Ask a group of my 8th grade U.S. History students what the causes of the American Revolution were and they are likely recite a…

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People August 9, 2016 August 28, 2016

Exploring Thomas Jefferson’s Love of Wine

Thomas Jefferson is said to have quipped that, “Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”[1]  It was more than his beverage of…

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