Recently added articles from Journal of the Early Republic:
The voices of publius and the strategies of persuasion in The Federalist.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Few writings in American politics have been as celebrated or as scrutinized as The Federalist, the eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay published serially between October 1787 and May 1788. Scholars have dissected the papers from a variety of ...
Wartime prisoners and the rule of law: Andrew Jackson's Military Tribunals during the First Seminole War.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... In April 1818, during the First Seminole War, General Andrew Jackson captured and executed two British allies of the Seminoles in Spanish Florida. During the months following the executions, Americans vigorously debated the validity of Jackson's conduct, contesting and defending the ...
Ophthalmology, popular physiology, and the market revolution in vision, 1800-1850.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... It cannot have escaped the notice of every medical observer that an unusual prevalence of diseases of the eye marks the period in which we live. Indeed, they are so prevalent, that they may be considered one of its common and peculiar trials. Edward Reynolds, Hints to Students ...
Congressional (partisan) constitutionalism: the Apportionment Act debates of 1842 and 1844.(Essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... The 27th Congress passed the Apportionment Act of 1842 and President John Tyler signed it with an accompanying statement, but its enforcement fell on the 28th House two years later. The passage, signing, and enforcement issues stimulated Congressional debates based on Article I of the ...
In memoriam: R. Don Higginbotham.(Editor's Page)(In memoriam)
Dec 22, 2008 ... R. Don Higginbotham was Dowd Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles, and a renowned authority on George Washington and the military history of the American Revolution. He served as ...