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What’d I Miss?: Diving Deeper into the History Behind Hamilton

While Lin Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical hit Hamilton takes some artistic liberties with our American Colonial past, there is a lot of history packed into…

Library of VirginiaJuly 1, 2020

Ten Paces! Fire!

On 28 November 1818, John McCarty of Loudoun County wrote a short letter to the Speaker of the House of Delegates of Virginia, declining the…

Claire RadcliffeJune 29, 2016

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His pistols within his reach: the volatile history of the Examiner

The Examiner, published semi-weekly in Richmond, Virginia from 1798 to 1804, held a prominent place in the incendiary world of early American politics. An organ for…

Anne McCreryApril 13, 2016

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Virginia’s “Last” Duel

Dueling, a trend that emerged in the middle ages as a way to settle disputes among European nobility, persisted among members of the American press,…

Natalie DraperFebruary 11, 2013