Thomas Jefferson
Ferguson shows how America’s racial past haunts the nation’s present
Was the shooting of Michael Brown an isolated incident or another chapter in America’s history of racial division? The events in Ferguson have brought that question back to the front of national news, and some people think it needs to stay there.
Monticello
This is the home of America’s aspirations and its deepest contradictions. Monticello is home renovation run amok. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States; he designed Monticello to the fraction of an inch and never stopped changing it. Yet Monticello was also a plantation worked […]