Program Manager, @ConSource. Alumnus, @UWMadison @UWHistoryDept.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2019
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News: A New Home for ConSource at Pembroke College, University of Oxford ow.ly/2dxN50BWzPk
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What happens after the House votes to impeach? How many votes in the Senate are needed to convict or acquit a president? Who presides over the trial, and are there any ground rules? Luckily, all the answers are right here: consource.org/document/unite…
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Kicking off the work week with Sebastian van Bastelaer on Les Habitants, The Quebec Act, #RevWar ideology and that damned absurd word liberty! allthingsliberty.com/2019/08…
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No one else was in the room where it happened! @HamiltonMusical @Lin_Manuel
On July 16, 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act. A compromise that facilitated the passage of Alexander Hamilton's plan to assume state debts, it provided for a new federal district on the banks of the Potomac: ow.ly/s3tV50uVC42
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Oh to be in the room where it happened...
On July 16, 1790, Congress passed the Residence Act. A compromise that facilitated the passage of Alexander Hamilton's plan to assume state debts, it provided for a new federal district on the banks of the Potomac: ow.ly/s3tV50uVC42
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Good article.
Both the Americans and the British sought to cultivate the favor of *les habitants* of Quebec - whose help could sustain an army indefinitely. As Sebastian van Bastelaer shows, failing to secure their endorsement could lead to ruin: allthingsliberty.com/2019/07…
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Read this essay from @SVBConSource on the burning of the Gaspee and the constitutional debates that inspired it: blog.consource.org/post/1854…
#OTD in 1772, angry colonists in Rhode Island burned the HMS Gaspee, considered by some to be the first naval event in the American Revolution.
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Check out the inaugural post of our new blog feature, The ConSource Daily Preamble: blog.consource.org/post/1851…