{"id":2329,"date":"2024-01-20T04:29:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T04:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?page_id=2329"},"modified":"2024-02-08T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:49:02","slug":"jeffersonians-and-hamiltonians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/course-syllabus\/jeffersonians-and-hamiltonians\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>Who mastered the new politics\u00a0 &#8211;Jeffersonians or Hamiltonians?<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Thesis Framework<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;In essence, Jefferson&#8217;s &#8216;Anas&#8217; reveals that beneath the political superstructure created by the Constitution, a subterranean politics of intrigue flourished, fueld by political gossip.&#8221; &#8211;Freeman, p. 66<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Questions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why was gossip so central to the new politics of the early republic?<\/li>\n<li>Were there unwritten rules or expectations about political gossip?<\/li>\n<li>What were gossip circles and how did they evolve into political parties?<\/li>\n<li>Compare and contrast the the nature of gossip by Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians?<\/li>\n<li>Why was Jefferson&#8217;s unpublished Anas such a revealing source for understanding politics in the 1790s?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Three Key Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1790 \/\/ Jefferson hosts dealmaking dinner with Hamilton and Madison<\/li>\n<li>1793 \/\/ Citizen Genet affair challenges the Washington administration<\/li>\n<li>1797 \/\/ Alexander Hamilton admits to earlier affair with Maria Reynolds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffersonian Gossip Circles:\u00a0 The Trio in Charge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-3.15.20-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-3.15.20-PM.png\" alt=\"Gossip Circle\" width=\"1100\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-3.15.20-PM.png 1100w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-3.15.20-PM-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-3.15.20-PM-814x1024.png 814w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-3.15.20-PM-768x966.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-07-at-3.15.20-PM-900x1132.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffersonian Salons:\u00a0 The Meaning of \u201cPell-Mell\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etiquipedia.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/thomas-jefferson-and-pell-mell-etiquette.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3899\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-8.13.18-AM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-8.13.18-AM.png 996w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-8.13.18-AM-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-8.13.18-AM-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-02-at-8.13.18-AM-391x300.png 391w\" alt=\"Pell mell\" width=\"996\" height=\"764\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The political intentions of Jefferson&#8217;s dinner parties reveal that the seemingly aloof Virginian was a skilled politician.\u00a0 Jefferson subtly set his dinner table as a political stage, inviting the proper mix of persuaded and persuadable guests, plying them with fine wines and deploying conversational props to direct the conversation.&#8221; &#8211;Freeman, p. 86<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutraged when received by the president in a tattered bathrobe and slippers and forced at a presidential dinner to conform to \u2018pell-mell\u2019 seating arrangements respecting of rank, the British minister to Washington, Anthony Merry, bitterly protested the affront suffered at the president\u2019s table.\u00a0 Jefferson no doubt privately chuckled at the arrogant Englishman\u2019s discomfiture, but his subsequent codification of republican practices into established procedures betrayed a larger purpose.\u201d &#8211;George Herring, <em>From Colony to Superpower, <\/em>p. 96<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2007, writing for\u00a0<em>The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>magazine, novelist Tom Wolfe went so far as to claim that \u201cthe idea of America\u201d was actually born at that moment, Friday evening, December 2, 1803, when the British ambassador Merry first confronted \u201cpell-mell.\u201d\u00a0 Read more about it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2007\/11\/pell-mell\/306312\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Memory &amp; Meaning<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Video depicting the Jefferson and Hamilton &#8220;feud&#8221; by Weird History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fW07zlrVb-U?si=Qke5irUMjExCWcKH\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 Lecture by Joanne Freeman on <em>Affairs of Honor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPWjHmbiRvo?si=4qn-h4hfJTZr5sE1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who mastered the new politics\u00a0 &#8211;Jeffersonians or Hamiltonians? 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