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The Four Hundred; Caroline Astor and Her New High Society

sensiblemajority, May 31, 2024July 27, 2024

The Gilded age in New York was a fascinating point in time full of innovation, and the four hundred played a crucial role in this development.

James Madison

May 26, 2024

Thomas Jefferson is said to have written the poetry of America’s aspirations, Madison wrote the prose.

May 1, 2024

The election of 1800 pitted the incumbent John Adams against Thomas Jefferson. The early founders abhorred the idea of political parties...

April 3, 2024

Alexander Hamilton is the only one of the founders who did not survive to an old age. Many lived into their 60s and beyond.

March 31, 2024

John Jay has historically been relegated to the second tier of the Founding Fathers. Yet he was instrumental in getting New York to ratify the Constitution. Had either Virginia or New York failed to ratify the Constitution it is unlikely that the young nation would have survived. He successfully negotiated...