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A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey

20+ hour, 34+ min ago  (342+ words) Students participating in the first annual Hampshire College Kite Fly, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1970 More by Christopher Benfey In a thirty-three-day ramble along the Hudson and Connecticut Rivers in 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison encountered many of the issues that would end…...