Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on September 27, 2024. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Things should be what they are in higher education as elsewhere. Colleges advertising a liberal arts curriculum should immerse their students in literature, […]
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The First Continent Congress was not known for taking radical measures. When it met in Philadelphia in the autumn of 1774, it first rejected the plan but was forwarded by Pennsylvania representative Joseph Galloway, Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly. Galloway favored a “solid political union” between the colonies and Britain as the best way to […]
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