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Rand Mirante

Rand Mirante

Previously a lawyer with McGraw-Hill, Rand Mirante is a fundraiser for Princeton University; he graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School. For a number of years, he taught Treason: From Henry V to John Walker Lindh in Princeton’s Writing Program, which included treatments of Benedict Arnold by John Marshall and Mercy Otis Warren. He has written Medusa’s Head, a biography of the regicide Joseph Fouché, Napoleon’s sinister and chameleonic police minister. Rand has given talks on the 1776-77 campaign to alumni, federal judges, and Washington’s descendants, and has lectured on a variety of topics ranging from the fall of New France to the Berlin Airlift on “Princeton Journeys” trips on the St. Lawrence, Danube, and Elbe Rivers and to Normandy.

Arts & Literature, Critical Thinking, Historiography, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) October 28, 2021 October 20, 2021

Justice, Mercy, and Treason: John Marshall’s and Mercy Otis Warren’s Treatments of Benedict Arnold

In the early years of the nineteenth century, the founders of the new American Republic were lurching forward from the shockingly successful outcome of…

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Historic Sites, Preservation, War at Sea and Waterways (1775–1783) August 6, 2020 August 11, 2020

A Visit to Fort Mifflin on the Delaware

The walls grew weak; and fast and hot Against them pour’d the ceaseless shot With unabating fury sent, From battery to battlement; And thunder-like…

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Features, Places, The War Years (1775-1783) August 9, 2018 August 8, 2018

A Visit to Old Fort Mercer on the Delaware

A motorist travelling northbound through New Jersey along Interstate 295, which tracks the east bank of the Delaware River from the Delaware Memorial Bridge,…

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People January 9, 2018 January 11, 2018

From Savior to Accused in Just One Day: Captain Joseph Moulder

General Mercer was down, bludgeoned and bayoneted. Colonel Haslet was down too, shot through the head. Captain Shippin of the Continental Marines had fallen,…

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