John Fenno

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Books and Publications, Critical Thinking, Historiography, Letters and Correspondence March 16, 2023 March 14, 2023

Thomas Jefferson and the Conditions of Good History: Writing About the American Revolution

by M. Andrew Holowchak

Thomas Jefferson has a Thucydidean, or fact-based, approach to the praxis of history. Evidence of that approach appeared early in his life, in his…

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Critical Thinking, Illness and Disease, Medicine, Primary Sources March 26, 2020 March 25, 2020

The Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793: Nine Observations and Lessons

by Brian Patrick O'Malley

“I often thought that the situation of a people in a bombarded city, was not much worse, and on some accounts not so bad;…

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1. Gary Shattuck The Great New York Fire of 1776

Notwithstanding martial law, elsewhere in the colonies the level of evidence needed to convict in a criminal trial or to find liability in a civil context was the same before…
2. Kim Burdick The Great New York Fire of 1776

Your talk in Williamsburg this past weekend was great! Thanks for all you do! Kim Burdick ARRT-NDE
3. Benjamin Carp The Great New York Fire of 1776

You may just be using criminal and civil courts as modern day examples but it's worth nothing that the British kept Manhattan under martial law for the rest of the…