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David Malcolm

@djmalcolm.bsky.social

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PhD student at Teesside University, researching Founding Fathers, the American Constitution, and the ideas of Ancient Greece & Rome. Ordinary Member for BAAS. He/him.

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David Malcolm @djmalcolm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm proud to announce that today I submitted my PhD dissertation, "American Patricians: The Influence of Classical ideas on the Founding Fathers in the American Revolution." Thank you to everyone who has been part of this incredible journey - family, friends, and colleagues!

Title page for a PhD dissertation
American Patricians: The Influence of Classical ideas on the Founding Fathers in the American Revolution
David John Malcolm
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Teesside University of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
July 2026

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David Malcolm @djmalcolm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I'm excited to be speaking at "The American Founding at 250" Roundtable next week! Come and join us for what promises to be a fascinating discussion on the political, intellectual, and cultural origins of the United States! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

History Lab Presents: The American Founding at 250: A Roundtable
Moderated by Patrick O'Dare (Queen Mary)

As the United States approaches it’s 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, join History Lab for this special roundtable event discussing the significance of the founding era (1763 - 1801) in American history today.

Connie Thomas (UCL): Identity, Myth, and Memory: Commemorating the American Founding in Hamilton: An American Musical
Becca Palmer (UCL): Conspiratorial language in the leadup to 1776: The Road to the Declaration of Independence and Revolution
David Malcolm (Teesside): The role of Classical Antiquity in the Revolutionary Period: The Intellectual Roots of the Declaration of Independence
Tony Sullivan (Queen Mary): Federalist Anglophilia and The Jay Treaty Debates, 1795–1796: Foreign Policy in the Early Republic of the United States.

7 May 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Online, via Zoom

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David Malcolm @djmalcolm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The bad news is that drafting the army into a program as broad as deportation is almost inevitable IF Trump is serious about this. One can only imagine how horrified and yet vindicated the Founding Fathers would feel at the thought of a standing army being used as a tool of oppression.

CBS News Poll / YouGov
Trump Starting Program to Deport all Immigrants in U.S. Illegally
57% approve
43% disapprove

Deporting all Immigrants in U.S. Illegally: Who should carry it out?
82% Immigration and Border Patrol Agencies
64% Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
40% U.S. Military

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