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Tag: federalismBoston Tea Party EtiquetteToday’s post is written by Monique Politowski, and is part of her ongoing series on the Federalists. Today is the 238th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On December 16, 1773, men dressed as Native Americans and wearing disguises, destroyed British owned tea by throwing it into the water of Griffin’s Wharf in Boston. Archives II has [...] Posted by Monique Politowski on December 16, 2011, under Archives II, Civil Records, Military Records. Publius says “Trick or Treat!”Today’s post is written by Monique Politowski, and is part of her ongoing series on the Federalists. It must have been weird for the readers of the New York Independent Journal to see an essay supposedly written by a long since dead Roman. Hamilton, Jay, and Madison all used the pseudonym “Publius,” intentionally becoming the [...] Posted by Monique Politowski on October 31, 2011, under Archives I, Civil Records, Outside NARA. John Jay and the F-WordToday’s post was written by Monique Politowski, an archives technician who works on the NARA/Ancestry digitization partnership project in Silver Spring, Maryland. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison were infamous for their use of the f-word, federalism. While John Jay’s infamy grew from his role in the Treaty of Paris (1783) (National Archives Identifier 299805), we should [...] Posted by Monique Politowski on October 14, 2011, under Archives I, Archives II, Civil Records. |
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