07.15.2009

**Wednesday, July 15 -- Hamilton and the New Nation, Darren Staloff**
In //Book of Readings//: “First Report on the Public Credit”; Federalist Papers, nos. 12, 13, 30, 31. Review pp. 3-131 of Darren Staloff’s //Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding//.

__Guiding Questions:__
 * How is the European Enlightenment connected to American ideals?
 * Describe Hamilton's rise in America and his key ideas.

**SCHEDULE**