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Dividing into Parties: Then and Now: America's First Parties

Array ( [0] => ENGL 6330 Spring 2018 [1] => no-show [2] => student exhibit )

...the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

George Washington, Farewell Address

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"One Last Time"-Hamilton At The White House

Washington's Farewell Address continues to resonate with Americans who wish the political landscape was less vitriolic. Lin-Manuel Miranda's recent musical Hamilton incorporates Washington's address into a beautiful song which combines the historical context of the address, the address itself, and a message about the inherent problems of partisanship. 

[1] Schapsmeier, Edward L., and Frederick H. Schapsmeier. “The Hamilton-Jefferson Confrontation: Origins of the American Political System.” Social Science, vol. 46, no. 3, 1971, pp. 139–147. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41959520.

Image Credit

Gilbert Stuart, “George Washington,”

Ezra Ames, “Alexander Hamilton,”

Charles Willson Peale, “Thomas Jefferson,”

John Vanderlyn, “James Madison,”