Carson Holloway is a visiting scholar in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics of the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation. He is also a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska–Omaha and is the author of "Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration."
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Events of 2015—both good and bad—have pushed Alexander Hamilton back into the spotlight. On a good note, he is the subject of a highly praised… Read More
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Last week the Department of the Treasury announced a plan to remove Alexander Hamilton’s portrait from the $10 bill and replace it with a portrait… Read More
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As America observes the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, we find that this great American’s legacy is as much a source of… Read More
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Alexander Hamilton is often credited with being the most far-sighted of the founders, since he, more than anyone else, saw America’s potential to become a… Read More
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Some conservatives are tempted to dismiss or regret the statesmanship and political thought of Alexander Hamilton, our nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury. This temptation… Read More
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One of the great ironies of our politics is that the American Civil Liberties Union is now actually hostile to traditional American civil liberties. This… Read More
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Two hundred forty years ago today, Patrick Henry made his immortal cry, “Give me liberty or give me death!” The statement came at the end… Read More
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These days, every week seems to bring forth another new article by a liberal commentator expressing a powerful combination of fear and outrage that the… Read More
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What’s so great about George Washington? I don’t mean this as a rhetorical question, implying that Washington really was not great—as such a question might… Read More
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At this time of year 150 years ago, in the middle of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln issued his second presidential proclamation setting apart the… Read More
