Author: Matthew Wigler

Matthew Wigler is an undergraduate at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he is a student of the American Revolution. Wigler originally hails from North Hempstead, New York, a town that revels in its Revolutionary heritage, where he worked with the Great Neck Historical Society. Winner of Stanford's Boothe Prize in Writing, Wigler enjoys writing historical fiction: his first collection of short stories, "Yesterday's New Tomorrow" was published in 2015. Wigler has won the New York Geography Bee and was a semifinalist in the National History Bowl. He is more likely than not to be listening to the "Hamilton" soundtrack right now.

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Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Revolutionary Religious Toleration: The Making of a Founder

The prevailing academic theories that attempt to interpret the motivations of those American colonists who rebelled against British taxation of, and ultimately, British sovereignty over the Thirteen North American colonies during the American Revolutionary War tend to center their focus on one of two broad themes: either political ideology or economic self-interest. While proponents of […]

by Matthew Wigler