A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...
The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured political moment.
No president is perfect and a job as complex as leading the United States brings about scandals is almost every ...
“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson ... novel "Clotel," which is something of a fantasia on the Sally Hemings story. Why is that noteworthy?
The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers. In fact, the election of 1800 ...
Americas struggle with facts versus fabrication and truth versus conspiracy theories has been going on for centuries. Thomas ...
The most extreme accusations Democrats and Republicans hurl at one another today would be familiar to the Founding Fathers.
Check -- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the candidates in 1800 ... when he alleged Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. Earlier, Callender brought almost modern gender ...
His 2014 painting, "Behind the Myth of Benevolence," for instance, peels away a portrait of Thomas Jefferson to reveal the face of Sally Hemings, a woman who Jefferson enslaved. Now, with his ...
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams ... exposing Jefferson’s relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings. While the Hemings revelations were indeed accurate and turned out to be facts, Callender ...