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History Now Essay

Thomas Jefferson and Deism

Peter S. Onuf

Of all the American founders, Thomas Jefferson is most closely associated with deism, the Enlightenment faith in a rational, law-governed world created by a "supreme architect" or cosmic "clockmaker." For many modern Americans, deist...

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29 | Religion in the Colonial World Fall 2011

History Now Essay

Getting Ready to Lead a World Economy: Enterprise in Nineteenth-Century America

Joyce Appleby

Economics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

When Jefferson won the presidency in 1801, his victory had an economic impact as great as the political one. The establishment of the new government under the Constitution twelve years earlier had laid the foundation for an integrated...

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24 | Shaping the American Economy Summer 2010

Lesson Plan

The French and Indian War

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical...

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26 October 1791

Claypoole, David C., fl. 1757-1849

The mail; or, Claypoole's daily advertiser. [No. 127 (October 26, 1791)]

One issue of The mail; or, Claypoole's daily advertiser dated October 26, 1791. Founded by David C. Claypoole in 1771 originally as the Pennsylvania Packet. Contains foreign intelligence mainly focused on Russian activities in Europe from the...

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History Now Essay

Indians in the United States: Movements and Empire

Sherally K. Munshi

Until the turn of the twentieth century, there were relatively few restrictions on international migration. European imperialism and settler colonialism were sustained by mass migration—both the “free” migration of European settlers...

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65 | Asian American Immigration and US Policy Winter 2022