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    Hamilton

    Historian Tony Williams recalled the political life of Alexander Hamilton.

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    Revisiting Founding Era Documents

    Historians Carol Berkin and Denver Brunsman, community leader Farah Jimenez, and the Constitutional Sources Project executive director Julie Silverbrook highlighted two lesser known document…

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    Aristocracy and the Founders

    Historian Gordon Wood talked about the Founding Fathers' attitudes and beliefs about aristocracy in America, where “titles of nobility” are prohibited by the Constitution, but where aristocr…

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    Discussion on the Hamilton-Burr Duel

    On its 200th anniversary the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr was re-enacted at its site in Weehawken, New Jersey. A panel of authors discussed the event and the men involved. …

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    A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

    Carol Berkin discussed her book A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, published by Harcourt. The book relates the story of the summer of 1787, when a group of men came …

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    Political Book Fair

    In an interview, author Carol Berkin talked briefly about the U.S. Constitution and the constitutional convention. She was the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constit…

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