Feb 18
A Founding Father and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was a “consistent opponent of slavery” throughout his lifetime– at least, that is according to some historians. But last year, a book on Jefferson attempted to turn that argument upside down by saying the Virginia-born plantation owner was actually a proponent of …
May 04
Science writer Charles Mann looks at Columbus’s “discovery” of America through the unique lens of biology and epidemiology. The author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created uncovers a Pre-Columbian world that was far from the untouched wilderness of history books. Native Americans shaped and …