The Secret Loves of the Founding Fathers: The Romantic Side of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Gouverneur Morris, Alexander Hamilton. By Charles Callan Tansill. (New York: Devin-Adair Company. 1964. Pp. xviii, 235. $4.75.)

1965 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Founding Fathers

4. Legacies

2015 ◽  
pp. 84-114
Author(s):  
R. B. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
The Other ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
James Madison ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Historical Cycles

“Legacies: What history has made of the founding fathers” shows that the founding fathers’ history has unfolded in two ways—one being their developing role in the American people’s historical memory, the other being their evolving place in history as interpreted by generations of historians. It also highlights how posterity has chosen individuals to revere or to chastise. The reputations of some founding fathers (George Washington and Benjamin Franklin) have remained consistently high; the reputations of others (Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton) have risen and fallen in historical cycles; others (John Adams, James Madison, and John Jay) have languished in neglect, only to be rediscovered and restored to the national pantheon.

1. Words, images, meanings

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
R. B. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Constitution ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
James Madison ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Continental Congress

The phrase “founding fathers” is central to how Americans talk about politics, and “Words, images, meanings” describes when the phrase was first coined, what it really means, and how artists have depicted the “founding fathers”—those who helped to found the United States as a nation and a political experiment. This group has two subsets. First are the Signers, delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who in July 1776 declared American independence and signed the Declaration of Independence. Second are the Framers, the delegates to the Federal Convention who in 1787 framed the United States Constitution. They include Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.

Mathematics and Our Founding Fathers

1976 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-307
Author(s):  
H. Howard Frisinger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
George Washington ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
Founding Fathers

On july 4, 1776, fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. This paper will discuss the contributions to mathematics or the interest in mathematics of four of these men. Two of these four, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, made significant contributions to the early development of mathematics in the United States. In addition to the mathematical contributions of Franklin and Jefferson, we shall briefly consider the mathematical interests of George Washington and John Adams.

Romanticism of Numbers: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Sublime

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
George Washington ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Fredric Jameson

Abstract This essay analyzes the narrative elements of the partisan dispute concerning Hamilton’s fiscal proposals in the first years of the 1790s. Focusing especially on a sequence of letters from the summer of 1792 between Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, it proposes that we should study Hamilton’s response to his opponents as an aesthetic argument. More specifically, Hamilton crafts the nation’s economic policy by conceiving of the sublimity of capital and finance, and I propose we should read Hamilton’s writing with an eye toward Immanuel Kant’s theory of the sublime. The essay also situates Hamilton in relation to other theorists of the economic sublime, including Fredric Jameson, François Lyotard, and Max Weber.

scholarly journals Female Patriotism

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 45-51
Author(s):  
Shannon Gosse
Keyword(s):  
American Revolution ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
American Government ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Female Experience

The American Revolution and the Founding of the American government often reflects the famous figures of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and many more male figures. This article focuses on the female experience, looking at two very different women who contributed significantly for the fight for freedom and liberty. Deborah Sampson and Esther Reed reflect two distinct activities of woman’s contributions for the American Revolution. Sampson was a fighter for American freedom by joining the battle, disguising herself as a male solider. Reed stayed within the domestic sphere but would break boundaries within her patriotic role by forming the Ladies Association of Philadelphia. These women and many others perform brave and patriotic actions during the American Revolution and should be recognized just as significant as their male counterparts. A focus on their roles and efforts during the war will reflect their significance.

The Life and Times of Fr. Junípero Serra: A Pan-Borderlands Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hurst Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
John Adams ◽  
Junipero Serra ◽  
Year 2013

The year 2013 marked the tercentennial of Fr. Junípero Serra’s birth. That same year, historian Steven Hackel anointed Serra (1713-1784) California’s Founding Father, thereby echoing the glory attached to such American greats as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson. But Hackel also noted that Serra remains “America’s least understood founder,” with a legacy that is today decidedly “divisive … contentious and contested.”

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