Study Marry Kill

Monday, Sep 14. Time tk. Substack Live with Dan Jones, nonfiction author and host of, among other series,Secrets of Great British Castles. Tue, Sep 15. 6:30–8:00 p.m. Center for Brooklyn History with Jesse Wegman to celebrate his new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, -1804; 1796; May, design for a seal for the United States. In 2021, Heather Cox Richardson, who hardly needs an introduction around here, took over Study Marry Kill along with Joanne B. Freeman, professor of history and American studies at Yale. Their subject—Hamilton’s gloriously overstuffed design for a national seal—has come to mind often as Donald Trump rebrands the Oval Office in his own gilt image. Hamilton’s design was less spa-coded.

Monday, Sep 14. Time tk. Substack Live with Dan Jones, nonfiction author and host of, among other series,Secrets of Great British Castles. Tue, Sep 15. 6:30–8:00 p.m. Center for Brooklyn History with Jesse Wegman to celebrate his new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution. Exercise the Power of Your Purse.

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Horace Greeley’s Chin: Vote on a Question of National Follicular Importance Friday, August 28. 6:30 PM – 7:30 p.m. Senate House State Historic Site. Keynote, Voices of Revolution 250th series. Tue, Sep 15. 6:30–8:00 p.m. Center for Brooklyn History. In conversation with Jesse Wegman to celebrate his new book, The Lost Founder. Behind the Essay: Everything I’ve Ever Written Has Claw Marks on It The argument is believed to be somewhere underneath! “Heap of Papers” by Harry M. Rhoads (1880/81-1975).

Friday, August 28. 6:30 PM – 7:30 p.m. Senate House State Historic Site. Keynote, Voices of Revolution 250th series. Tue, Sep 15. 6:30–8:00 p.m. Center for Brooklyn History. I’ll be in conversation with Jesse Wegman to celebrate his new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution. The arc of the inbox is long, but it bends toward upgrade. Subscribe below or Venmo me directly, as the founders intended.

Subscribe below or Venmo me directly, as the founders intended. How history processes inconvenient intimacy. Perhaps Natalie “the Human Printer” Harp has escaped your notice. The 35-year-old special assistant and executive assistant to the president had already received coverage as one of Donald Trump’s most devoted aides, but remained the lesser-known platinum head in his young blond honor guard—usually at his elbow or sprinting after his golf cart.

Friday, August 28. 6:30 PM – 7:30 p.m. Senate House State Historic Site. Keynote, Voices of Revolution 250th series. Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 6:30–8:00 p.m. Center for Brooklyn History. I’ll be in conversation with Jesse Wegman to celebrate his new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution. Some of Henry Kissinger’s closed door, breathtakingly casual moral obscenity: “Power is the great aphrodisiac.” Quoted in Hedrick Smith’s 1971 New York Times profile.

Friday, August 28. 6:30 PM – 7:30 p.m. Senate House State Historic Site. Keynote, Voices of Revolution 250th series. Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 6:30–8:00 p.m. Center for Brooklyn History. I’ll be in conversation with Jesse Wegman to celebrate his new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution. Shoutout to Canva for letting me produce this nonsense in ten minutes.

Monday, August 24. 6:30 PM – 7:30 p.m. Senate House State Historic Site. Keynote, Voices of Revolution 250th series. Tue, Sep 15, 2026, 6:30–8:00 p.m. Center for Brooklyn History. I’ll be in conversation with Jesse Wegman to celebrate his new book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution.