Andrew O’Shaughnessy is the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and a Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His recent book, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire, won this year’s George Washington Book Prize and several other awards. Tom Cutterham spoke to him for The Junto.
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The Week in Early American History
Happy Memorial Day to our readers in the United States. This week’s links begin with reminders about the origins of the holiday. Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
Welcome to your weekly roundup of early American history headlines. Now that you’ve aced your presidential history knowledge, and reviewed this reading list of their lives, it’s on to the links! Continue reading
The Week in Early American History
In time for Memorial Day, we have several stories about time, memory, and narrative in general, as well as links to stories of early America.
First, two new book reviews: Mike Jay’s review of Suzanne Corkin’s Permanent Present Tense, on memory and personal identity, and James Gleick’s review of Lee Smolin’s Time Reborn, on the nature of time itself.
Then, has wider access to information done anything in recent years to restrain the “paranoid style in American politics”? Maggie Koerth-Baker says no.
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