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... JAMES MADISON J.C.A. Stagg PROLOGUE IN PERSPECTIVE : THE LEGACY OF EBENEZER HAZARD , AMERICA'S FIRST DOCUMENTARY EDITOR Don W. Wilson POSTSCRIPT : CASUAL OBSERVER BEWARE : THE NEED FOR USING SCHOLARLY EDITIONS Charles T. Cullen ...
... JAMES MADISON J.C.A. Stagg PROLOGUE IN PERSPECTIVE : THE LEGACY OF EBENEZER HAZARD , AMERICA'S FIRST DOCUMENTARY EDITOR Don W. Wilson POSTSCRIPT : CASUAL OBSERVER BEWARE : THE NEED FOR USING SCHOLARLY EDITIONS Charles T. Cullen ...
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... James Craik of October 25 , 1784 , has to be struck by the man's uncommon awareness of self : his strong sense that what he decided and what he did , and how others perceived his decisions and deeds , always mattered . These things ...
... James Craik of October 25 , 1784 , has to be struck by the man's uncommon awareness of self : his strong sense that what he decided and what he did , and how others perceived his decisions and deeds , always mattered . These things ...
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... James Madison of March 30 , 1789 , Washington requests arrangements to be made for his lodgings prior to his arrival in New York for his inauguration as first President of the United States . Even on the day of his death , December 14.
... James Madison of March 30 , 1789 , Washington requests arrangements to be made for his lodgings prior to his arrival in New York for his inauguration as first President of the United States . Even on the day of his death , December 14.
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... James Madison , and Benjamin Franklin . After the Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association agreed to join the university in sponsoring the project and both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Pub- lications ...
... James Madison , and Benjamin Franklin . After the Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association agreed to join the university in sponsoring the project and both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Historical Pub- lications ...
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... James Madison Professor of History and the editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia . ' Unless otherwise noted , all of the letters to or from Washington that are cited or quoted are in the Washing- ton ...
... James Madison Professor of History and the editor of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia . ' Unless otherwise noted , all of the letters to or from Washington that are cited or quoted are in the Washing- ton ...
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Page 115 - bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved / for the use of men living in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must "believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment for the creation of the future.
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