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Constitutional Debate, Postwar Politics (>1783), Religion September 2, 2019 September 2, 2019

America’s Revolution Against Toleration: The Rise of True Religious Liberty

by Brian Patrick O'Malley

In 1793, a widely circulated American editorial observed, “A few years ago, to say of any man that he was ‘a friend to toleration,’…

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Features, Memorials, Myths and Legends, Religion October 15, 2018 October 14, 2018

Revisiting the Prayer at Valley Forge

by Blake McGready

When George Washington died in 1799, partisan infighting and international crises threatened the survival of the American experiment. Many Americans believed in Washington’s unique…

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1. Ed Wimble George Washington and the First Mandatory Immunization

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2. J.A. Houlding The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington’s Slave Roundup

The foreign historian is struck, as so often, by the typically ideological and always disappointing version of 1775-83 that infuses the historically innocent comment above ("Why bring this stain on…
3. Peter Kurz A Reconsideration of Continental Army Numerical Strength at Valley Forge

Here's a quote from the diary of my ancestor Joseph Clark, deputy commissary of musters, who was with the army when it entered Valley Forge: "Friday, Dec. 19th – The…