[loveliberty2]

Yes, both Frothingham and JQA's "Jubilee," in my opinion, combined, along with the observations of the ideas and developments in America by Edmund Burke, in his 1775 "Speech on Conciliation," provide special insight into the "seedbed of ideas" surrounding America's founding. All would make good material for a course--perhaps an online course could become useful.

Another benefit of Frothingham's work is that his footnotes provide additional resources for study.

Have read some of Wood's histories and essays, although he dwells rather heavily on the idea of "democracy," instead of the "democratic republic" focus of JQA, or the "Republic, if you can keep it" insistence of Franklin.

In the Introduction to one of his books, he does, however, point out some of the issues related to what he called 20th Century "Progressive historians" like Beard, one of the most widely used texts for teaching students for many years.

[Jacquerie]

Well, that is not what I took from his exhaustive work in “The Creation . . . “ The newly independent republics initially went way too far toward the popular, “leveling,” as Gorham termed it.

Burke is superb. An Englishman was indeed the worst possible person to talk another into slavery. He illustrated how gentlemen could, in so many words call the king and his ministers a collection of idiots.

As for Beard, his “An Economic Interpretation . . . “ wasn't nearly as hamfisted as I expected it to be. It bothered me not that successful men held government securities. However, I do not doubt what the progressives did with his discoveries. They had far too much time to abuse the men of our Framing before McDonald challenged them so very well.