Stacy Schiff
@stacyschiff
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Author of, among others, Cleopatra: A Life, The Witches: Salem, 1692, and The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.
New York, NY
Joined June 2010
RT @nytopinion: “But how to design a national executive for a people who had jettisoned a king? The Articles of Confederation provided for…
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@MJEmery_Bored Otis certainly thought so, as did Franklin, in London. Adams held that representation in a body 3000 miles away would at best produce more misconceptions. Much appreciate the kind words @MJEmery_Bored
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@BeachMacTO You have a treat in store @BeachMacTO. Delighted that VERA proved good company -- and led you back to VN
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RT @nbunkerauthor: Many historians of America's founding era try to make the events of the 1770s and 1780s speak to our contemporary crise…
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RT @KBAndersen: Illuminating & entertaining @stacyschiff essay on the divided & confused Constitutional framers fears in 1787 of citizens b…
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@joy_gimbel @MaryLouiseBin19 @_endwitchhunts @EmersonWBaker @katherinebhowe @malcolmgaskill @witchesetc @odavies9 @DanGagnonUSA @oneofwindsor @SamanthaS80 So pleased with this obsession @joy_gimbel
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Happy 50th anniversary #NHD550. Honored to join the 2024 committee @NationalHistory
Did you know NHD has a 50th Anniversary Honorary Committee? From legendary documentary filmmaker @KenBurns and @LibnOfCongress Dr. Carla Hayden to journalists from @PBS @NewsHour @CNN & professors of history, we are honored to have these leaders in history supporting NHD. #NHD50
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@jomozdiez So very kind of you @jomozdiez. All credit to the production team and writers, who handled the history with care
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RT @AppleBooks: He outmaneuvered British spies, French informers & hostile colleagues. No this isn't a James Bond storyline; it's @stacysch…
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RT @AlexisCoe: Madeira in the first 30 seconds?! Bury me under these historically accurate Easter eggs in #Franklin @stacyschiff! https://t…
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RT @CarmenMarinoNYC: As #Congress nears climactic vote on aid to #Ukraine, a compelling case in favor is this exceptionally well-written @…
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RT @GuggFellows: Congratulations to the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows! Here is a message from President Edward Hirsch (1985 Fellow) #guggfellows2…
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RT @nytopinion: Congress is again debating the entanglement of a young republic “with a wealthy benefactor,” writes @stacyschiff. “It pays…
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RT @alnthomas: Happy 100th birthday to Victor Brombert, treasured teacher, discerning critic, and professor emeritus at @Princeton. His lat…
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Come join us at the great @PoliticsProse
Saturday, join @stacyschiff at P&P to discuss THE REVOLUTIONARY: SAMUEL ADAMS - a revelatory biography about the essential Founding Father who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution. 3pm @ Conn Ave w/ Bob Thompson -
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RT @MaryLouiseBin19: @_endwitchhunts book store has a variety of witchtrial history books from authors @EmersonWBaker @katherinebhowe @malc…
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