Alison LaCroix, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Alison LaCroix

Alison LaCroix is Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and an Associate Member of the University of Chicago Department of History. She is the author of The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Thirteen Clocks Striking Together: The Forging of American Independence

By Alison LaCroix|2020-07-02T14:52:26-05:00November 25th, 2015|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Books, Declaration of Independence, Featured, History, Independence Day, Literature, Thomas Jefferson|

In “Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor,” Richard R. Beeman tells a compelling narrative of the crucial years between the first meeting of the Continental Congress and the announcement of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. He gives concrete examples of the novel ways in which the lines of political and [...]