Irreconcilable Founders Megan Lapp • Earth’s Layers

• Earth’s Layers

The biblical story of Job leads to an ongoing practice of reading and rereading

Ataturk overturned many centuries of Islamic tradition and imposed wide-ranging secular reforms on the nation's politics

the silent-film star Francis X

sought the destruction of the trade-union movement-defended on the left by socialists

Irreconcilable Founders Megan Lapp • Earth’s LayersVirginians dominate the early history of the United States, with Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Patrick Henry, George Mason, George Wythe, and John Marshall figuring prominently in that narrative. Fellow Virginian Spencer Roane (1762 1822), an influential jurist and political thinker, was in many ways their equal. Roane is nonetheless mostly absent in accounts of early America. The lack of interest in Roane is remarkable since he was the