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Michael Liss

Bylines

John Adams Is Bald and Toothless

A brief history of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on May 19, 2025
Harry Truman's Train Ride

A whistle-stop train tour, and some plain speaking spur Harry Truman's come from behind win in 1948 over Thomas Dewey.

by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on March 25, 2024
An Intemperate Man: The Impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase

The presence of Federalist judges frustrated Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party, bring justice Samuel Chase under fire.

by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on June 19, 2023
Sunrise at Monticello

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.

by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on July 19, 2021
The Founders Flounder: Adams Agonistes

Why John Adams was peculiarly unsuited to the moment.

by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on May 24, 2021
Dred Scott Strains the Mystic Chords

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.

by Michael Liss via 3 Quarks Daily on March 5, 2018

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