Finally, a well-deserved pushback to the politics of the Hamilton musical is happening. The show does include one named black character, Sally Hemings, who appears in a quick cameo that lands mainly a
Ever since the 1820s, Americans have recreated the Founding Fathers they wished they had and used them in convenient ways to promote their own agenda. Little has changed over the decades except the ad
You may have seen this study that came out a week or so ago showing that American adults consume almost as many “empty calories” through alcohol as through soda. In a world of “facts
This Henry Wiencek piece at Smithsonian on Thomas Jefferson’s dark side has half-perplexed me, yet the reactions show why it is so necessary. The piece essentially argues that Jefferson was a co
Americans’ have shaped narratives to make the Founding Fathers fit any number of political ideologies since at least the 1830s. It is a national passion to build connections between one’s