In 1811, with an adroit use of epistolary shuttle diplomacy, Benjamin Rush brokered a reconciliation between two former friends, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. When the ice broke, the second and ...

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On the C-SPAN Networks: Gordon S. Wood is a Professor Emeritus for the History Department in the Brown University with 26 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum as a ...

Prologue : The eulogies -- Contrasts -- Careers, wives, and other women -- The imperial crisis -- Independence -- Missions abroad -- Constitutions -- The French ...