First, I think we need to address the elephant in the room that Mike brought up during this episode: Winona Ryder comes third out of four; Katharine Hepburn and Saoirse Ronan are way ahead. And lets

Alexander McNair wasnt especially well-educated, but he became a judge and a governor of a territory and then that same area when it became a state, so he must have had something going on besides hig

As we noted a few days ago, both Payton Randolph and George Washington managed to quell a couple of militia-based riots which would have resulted in the torching of the Royal Governors mansion. Both

More often than not, items that appear in the Bill of Rights derive directly from actions that the British took at one time or another in the past. Ban guns, will you? Heres a nice Second Amendment.

Rachel Walker Revere was Paul Reveres second wife. When he married her, hed only been a widower for a few months, so clearly she made a big impression on him, especially since they remained together

Wellll.ordered to be destroyed. But it didnt happen. Oddly, it was also quite susceptible to the foibles of weather, so when the British took South Carolina back five years later, it was assumed tha

Nova Scotia could have been the fourteenth state, except we ruined it for them over the whole fishing rights thing. And then when push came to shove, they decided that rebellion wasnt for them, and t

Jonathan Trumbull was one of only two men to serve as governor of a Colony and of a State. (Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island was the other.) This, to us, gives him a kind of air that perhaps he could be

The war was hot in Massachusetts, but it was still cold elsewhere. But that didnt mean that there wasnt rebellious activity going on, since by this point everyone knew what was going on up north. It

Josiah Quincywho weve talked about before; remember that portrait?would have been one of the more prominent men we speak of when we use venerated tones about the Founding Fathers, had it not been f