Nancy Bradeen Spannaus is a retired journalist and editor who has been studying American history, with an emphasis on its economic development in general, and Alexander Hamilton in particular. She maintains the blog, www.americansystemnow.com, and is co-author of Political Economy of the American Revolution (1977) and author of Hamilton Versus Wall Street: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics (2019). She and her husband live in Northern Virginia.
One of the most insightful monologues in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton musical comes from King George, who raps to the following effect: Well, now that you have your freedom, do you have any idea what to do next? To most Americans at the time of the War for Independence, of course, the King’s question was the […]
Put yourself, in your mind’s eye, back in June 1776, specifically, the period between June 7 and July 1. It is precisely at that time that one of the most crucial political battles in the history of the American republic was fought—the battle over whether the American colonists would, as thirteen united colonies, declare independence […]
