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Thomas Jefferson
May 10, 2016
Matthew C. Simpson
Thomas Jefferson’s Double Life
A new biography explains the contradictions in a man who defended equality while owning slaves.
September 10, 2013
Tevi Troy
John Tyler’s Love of Shakespeare
September 9, 2013
Tevi Troy
George Washington Threw an Awesome Dinner Party
December 7, 2012
Gordon S. Wood
The Birth of American Finance
September 6, 2012
Marc Tracy
Power of the Incumbent: Why Obama’s Re-Election Would Be Truly Historic
July 13, 2012
Jeffrey Rosen
Big Chief
June 21, 2012
Kevin Carey
The Decline and Fall of a Public University: How Status Anxiety Doomed the University of Virginia
June 18, 2012
Alec MacGillis
First We'll Take Manhattan, Then We'll Take Charlottesville (Updated)
March 15, 2012
Gordon S. Wood
The Dream of Law
February 23, 2012
Timothy Noah
Horace Mann, Antichrist?
February 22, 2012
Jeffrey Rosen
Judge Mental
February 21, 2012
Martin Peretz
The Complicated Links Between Mormonism and Judaism
February 20, 2012
Timothy Noah
Santorum: Who Needs Public Education?
January 28, 2012
Martin Peretz
The Have-Nots and the Have-Lots
January 12, 2012
Akhil Reed Amar
Why Speakers of the House Should Never Be President
October 26, 2011
Sean Wilentz
The Mirage
The long and tragical history of post-partisanship, from Washington to Obama.
August 24, 2011
Martin Peretz
The Best Responses to 9/11—and the Worst
August 8, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The Millenialist Temptation
June 1, 2011
Walter Shapiro
Glass Ceiling
May 16, 2011
Jonathan Chait
House Of Games

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