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Features, Interviews July 21, 2019 July 21, 2019

This Week on Dispatches: John L. Smith, Jr. on John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and King Louis XVI together at Notre-Dame

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On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews actor, teacher, US Army and US Air Force veteran, and JAR contributor, John L. Smith, Jr., about…

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Culture, Diaries and Journals, Historic Sites, People June 13, 2019 June 14, 2019

The Day Notre-Dame Cathedral Hosted Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and King Louis XVI

by John L. Smith, Jr.

1785 was a rare year in Paris—it was safely nestled between revolutions. The American Revolution had come to an official end right there in…

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