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Alexis Coe

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The Scandal and the Scale

Is there more to the story that the New York Times is reporting about the scholarship of historian Kerri Greenidge? Something doesn't add up.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on July 12, 2026
Lies We Learned: America Won the War of 1812

How American history has valorized a draw.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on January 3, 2026
Commanders-in-Heat VII: Flatline & Spin

The first modern presidential death was also the first medical mystery America refused to let go.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on August 2, 2025
Witch Hunt Nation: The Endurance of a Metaphor That Burned

A brief look at the usage of "witch hunt" in American politics through the centuries.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on May 28, 2025
George Washington Cut Six Sentences From His Farewell Address. They’re Haunting Me Now.

“The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president wrote.

by Alexis Coe via Slate
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on February 17, 2025
“Half Right and Half Wrong.”

There's more to Gerald Ford, "the son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch,” than Watergate.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on September 13, 2023
What Being Unpopular Does to a First-Term President

Some lessons for Joe Biden from the ’70s presidents who lived it.

by Alexis Coe via Slate
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on October 3, 2022
Sluts and the Founders

Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on January 26, 2022
The Insanity Trial of Mary Lincoln

How the self-proclaimed "First Widow" used her celebrity to influence public opinion.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on November 23, 2021
Primary Sources are a Vibe

Historian Melanie Newport turns to eBay.

by Alexis Coe, Melanie Newport via Study Marry Kill on November 10, 2021
A Deadly Introduction

Who was Henry Ellett? Looking at his grave you wouldn't know much about him.

by Alexis Coe via Study Marry Kill on October 13, 2021
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

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Two men fighting during Shay's Rebellion.

Fights Over American Democracy Reach Back to the Founding Era

In early America, the soaring ideals behind establishing a new democracy were marked by cycles of progress and backlash.

via Retro Report on January 4, 2024

Redcoat reenactors beneath a statue of George Washington.

Washington is Named for a President who Owned Slaves. Should It Be?

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

by Ron Judd via The Seattle Times on October 11, 2020

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