I stumbled across this film last week when I was curious to see if anyone had ever played James Madison in a starring cinematic role. The description of the plot reads: “Ginger Rogers is the daughter of boardinghouse owners in Washington, DC who falls in love with Aaron Burr and James Madison.” There is so […]
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Lil Jimmy Madison
Posted in History, tagged James Madison on February 18, 2017 | Comments Off on Lil Jimmy Madison
James + Alex = BFF
Posted in Books and Reading, tagged James Madison on January 25, 2017 | Comments Off on James + Alex = BFF
Or maybe just Best Friends up until Jefferson got back from France. From “Madison’s Gift”, in a section about James Madison working on writing the Federalist with Alexander Hamilton while they both were living in New York: A neighbor remembered them engrossed in an exchange in Hamilton’s yard, then stopping to laugh and play with […]
Handwriting Day
Posted in Books and Reading, tagged handwriting, James Madison on January 24, 2017 | Comments Off on Handwriting Day
Yesterday, John Hancock’s birthday, was National Handwriting Day. A new personal holiday of mine, because I love handwriting. Here is a sample of the outside of a letter, written in 1790 by Treasury Secretary Hamilton. It looks like he spent some time on pretty calligraphy and flourishes, then signed his name at the bottom, as […]