A new book by historian Annette Gordon-Reed explores the former US president’s writings on race throughout his life
Thomas Jefferson’s interactions with enslaved people bookend his life. The third US …
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Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life ⊖
The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination
They call this land the Laue. In the late 1800s, part of the…
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Why Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave ○
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The Trump administration has taken aim at the University of Virginia
Mount Rushmore experts reveal if Trump can be added to the iconic monument - as sculptor's granddaughter gives blunt response ○
The faces carved into the mountain - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln - are among the most popular American leaders to this day.
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Is it true that … cold water plunges boost immunity? ○
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Feeling energised after a cold dip may just be your body’s shock response –and increased immune cell activity doesn’t always mean fewer infections
‘It’s a long-held belief that taking to the waters is…
‘Hard for me to understand’: grappling with the Charlottesville tragedy eight years on ○
Author and Charlottesville native Deborah Baker revisits the devastating events of 2017 and examines how they speak to a difficult past
Deborah Baker’s new book, Charlottesville, is about her home tow…
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Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’ ○
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Diggs’ harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band’s world-building – setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs – is no less dram…
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The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton ○
Donald Trump’s actions go against the Enlightenment values that gave rise to the constitution. His might-is-right politics have nothing to offer Britain
The founding fathers of the USA – James Madison…
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Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico | Greg Grandin ○
Environmental disasters have plagued the water body for decades. Now the region is thrust in the global spotlight
The enormous semi-enclosed bay, its waters flanked by the Florida and Yucatán peninsul…
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What is the Beatles’ most streamed song? The Saturday quiz ○
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From John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to The History Boys, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 The Miser’s Warning was the subtitle of an 1844 adaptation of what story?
2 What term for a trends…
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