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How should the United States welcome immigrants?
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Taxes: Distinguishing Necessary from Evil
Is education as an expense or an investment? When does spending, even for a good cause, yield too little of a return to be worth it?
George Wythe and Patrick Henry tangle over these questions in this imagined conversation at Christiana Campbell’s Tavern….
It Starts Here: Debating Church and State
How should government protect liberty of conscience? Should the state promote fundamental values, even if those values might seem to promote religion?
In this imagined conversation at Christiana Campbell’s Tavern, Baptist preacher Gowan Pamphlet and five-term Virginia governor Patrick Henry wrestle with these questions….
A Place of Her Own: The Aspirations of 18th-Century Women
Eighteenth-century women faced an array of legal and social restrictions. Enslaved women enjoyed almost no protections at all.
Still, many women pushed against these limits, asserting control over finances, households and their bodies. They were not merely victims of a system rigged to deny their equality. They had ambitions: to be truly free, to speak as full citizens, to have a place they could call their own….
Created Equal? An Enslaved Woman Confronts a Revolutionary Claim
Were the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence tarnished from the beginning?
That question is at the heart of this imagined conversation between Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration’s author, and Lydia Broadnax, an enslaved woman in the household of Jefferson’s mentor, George Wythe….
It Starts Here: What Is the Right Balance between Privacy and Security?
When does our right to personal privacy interfere with national security? Is surveillance of civilians acceptable? Americans still wrestle with these questions just as we did in the nation’s earliest days.
In the 18th century, those debates frequently occurred at the tavern. So we’ve taken issues that resonate today and imagined how those conversations might have sounded between people of that time….