On this episode, Steve and Cody discuss the Founding Father with a more famous, if fictional, descendant, Josiah Bartlett.

Sources

• Lockwood, Thornton C. “Josiah Bartlett.” Society of Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 2008. https://www.dsdi1776.com/signer/josiah-bartlett/. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
• Kelly, Howard A. and Walter L. Burrage, Ed. “Bartlett, Josiah (1729-95).” American Medical Biographies. Baltimore, MD: Norman Remington Co., 1920.
• See the General Sources page on our website to view a list of commonly-used sources

Podcast to recommend: Ranking ‘76 (https://ranking76podcast.podbean.com/)

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On this episode of Imperfect Men, we examine the chariot-riding master of Battersea, John Banister.

Sources

• "A List of Tithes & Taxable Property taken by Dun [Duncan] Rose Gent the 10th day of April, 1782 for Dinwiddie County". The William and Mary Quarterly. 26 (3): 196–201. January 1918. https://www.jstor.org/stable/191801. Retrieved 24 Apr 2023.
• “Colonel John Banister.” Colonel John Banister Chapter, DAR. http://www.coljohnbanister.org/banister.htm. Retrieved 24 Apr 2023.
• See the General Sources page on our website to view a list of commonly-used sources

Podcast to recommend: Noblesse Oblige (Nobelesse Oblige)

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On this episode, we discuss the first Georgia Bulldog and the last signer of the Constitution, Abraham Baldwin.

Sources

• Coleman, Kenneth, and Andrew O’Shaugnessy. “Social Affairs, 1782-89.” The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-89. Athens, GA: U. of Georgia Press, 1958.
• White, Henry C. Abraham Baldwin: One of the Founders of the Republic, and Father of the University of Georgia, the First of American State Universities. Athens, GA: McGregor, 1926.
• See the General Sources page on our website to view a list of commonly-used sources

Podcast to recommend: Battle Royale (https://battleroyalepodcast.wordpress.com/)

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On this episode, Cody and Steve discuss the man who could have been the 57th signer of the Declaration, John Alsop.

Sources

• Library of Congress. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Vols. 2-4. https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwdg.html#:~:text=The%20twenty%2Dsix%20volumes,Continental%20Congresses%2C%201774%2D1789. Retrieved 20 Mar 2023.
• See the General Sources page on our website to view a list of commonly-used sources

Podcast to recommend: Pontifacts (PONTIFACTS: Ranking the Popes | Pontifacts)

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On this episode, Cody and Steve cover the fourth and last of the Adamses to sign the Big Four documents, Thomas Adams.

Sources

• The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan 1915). . Retrieved 6 Mar 2023.
• See the General Sources page on our website to view a list of commonly-used sources

Podcast to recommend: Saga Thing (Saga Thing | Putting the Sagas of the Icelanders on trial)

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On this episode, we rate the most famous Son of Liberty while downing some of the brew named for him, Samuel Adams.

Sources

• Puls, Mark. Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
• Schiff, Stacy. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. New York, NY: Little, Brown, & Co., 2022.
• See the General Sources page on our website to view a list of commonly-used sources

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On our second episode, we discuss the reason why Paul Giamatti is an Emmy Award winner, John Adams.

Podcast to recommend: Totalus Rankium (Totalus Rankium | Ranking all the Roman Emperors and American Presidents)

Sources

• Ellis, Joseph J. Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993.
• Ferling, John E. John Adams: A Life. Knoxville, TN: U. of Tennessee Press, 1992.
• McCullough, David. John Adams. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
• See pinned post on Bluesky for general sources

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Welcome to the first ranking episode of Imperfect Men! This week we explore the third (or even fourth) best known Adams, Andrew Adams!

Sources

• Encyclopedia of the Continental Congresses, Vol. 1. Grey House Publishing, 2015. .
• See the General Sources page on our website to view a list of commonly-used sources

Podcast to recommend: Rex Factor (Home of the Rex Factor Podcast)

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Welcome to our new show, Imperfect Men! Join Cody and Stephen as they deep-dive and rate into the signers of the United States' founding documents. This episode explores the preceding events leading to the American Revolution, and discusses the criteria for which the signers will be rated.

Sources:

• Amar, Akhir Reed. The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840. Basic Books, New York, 2021.
• Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Belknap Press, Cambridge, 1998.
• Calloway, Colin. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. Oxford U. Press, Oxford, 2006.
• Cogliano, Frank. Revolutionary America, 1763-1814: A Political History. Routledge, New York, 2000.
• Harvey, Robert. A Few Bloody Noses: The American Revolutionary War. Overlook Press, Woodstock, 2001.
• Horn, James. A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. Basic Books, New York, 2005.
• Meinig, Donald William. The Shaping of America: Atlantic America, 1492-1800. Yale U. Press, New Haven, 1986.

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