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February 8, 2021

RECAP: “‘A terror to others’: Thomas Jefferson’s Quiet Campaign against the Slave Trade,” colloquium w/ Andrew J. B. Fagal (TJ Papers) and Craig Hollander (College of NJ)

For a figure as studied as Thomas Jefferson, relatively little ink has been spilled on his time in the executive office. We get the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis & Clark expedition in our textbooks, Jefferson Papers Associate Editor Andrew J. B. Fagal noted, and if we’re lucky, The Embargo Act. Similarly, as understandably central […]

January 26, 2021

RECAP: “Hidden Laws: Understanding the Resilience of the American Constitution,” Colloquium with Howard University Prof. Robinson Woodward-Burns

The question at the heart of Howard University Assistant Professor of Political Science Robinson Woodward-Burns’ January 22 talk at the Kinder Institute—likewise the question at the heart of his forthcoming Yale University Press monograph—is a straightforward one: How, amidst continuous calls for reform, has the U.S. Constitution not only survived but survived in relatively stable […]

December 7, 2020

RECAP: “Talking Back to Thomas Jefferson: African-American Nationalism in the Early Republic,” Colloquium with U. Penn Professor Mia Bay

Though it was produced centuries after the time period on which her December 4 talk focused, University of Pennsylvania Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Chair in American History Mia Bay cited the juxtaposition of Thomas Jefferson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Faith Ringgold’s 2009 “As Free and Independent States” as embodying exactly […]