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Pop Presidential Biographer Shakes Up American Pantheon
Pop Presidential Biographer Shakes Up American Pantheon John Adams , by David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, 751 pages, $35. Last
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Slumming in Squeeze Gut Alley: The Story of the Dirtiest Ward
Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious
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Forget J. Lo-Take To The Waters
Travel that involves the consultation of maps, avid sightseeing and strenuous culture-vulture activity is enough like work that it absorbs
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Like Dickens, I’m a Tourist On Withered Ground
The parties I go to are not the sort of affairs where people exchange stock tips or lay the groundwork
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Hard Birth and Fast Start For Our Now-Almighty Dollar
Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America , by Jason Goodwin. Henry Holt, 321 pages, $26. It’s easy
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Dining out with Moira Hodgson
Far-Flung Fare Fit for a Founding Father “Any questions about the menu?” asked the waiter. I should have said, “Pull
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Power Punk: Marco Masotti
Lawyer fled apartheid to study law, bring Jefferson to South Africa; won Fulbright, fell in love; rakes in the Benjamins,
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History’s Mysteries: Who’s Teaching This?
As a cultural battleground, the teaching of history never excited the, er, passions associated with controversial movie-making or prime-time exhibitionism.
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And the Pursuit of Hustle: A Nation of Creative Con Men
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 , by Walter A. McDougall. HarperCollins, 638 pages, $29.95. Every
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Schumann’s Genoveva at Bard; Mozart Politicized by Sellars
The heat of summer seems to bring out obscure oddities plucked from the overstocked greenhouse of Western classical music. For
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The Party of Jefferson
Last night the venerable Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club of Brooklyn held their holiday party at the Hudson River Yacht Club.
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Charisma and the Presidency
The race for the presidency will get into formal swing with the first Republican debate hosted by Fox News this week.
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Goodbye Bill and Hillary, and Jefferson and Jackson, Too
This is the new era of Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Jackson. And it may be a long saga.
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Donald Trump and the New Age of Andrew Jackson
Mr. Jackson put a fire in the belly of the heartland.
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NYC Council Members Want to Pull Slaveholder Names Off Public Housing
NYCHA complexes bearing the names of slave owners include the Thomas Jefferson Houses, George Washington Houses and Andrew Jackson Houses.
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Journalists Stand Up to Trump, Declare That Media Is ‘Not the Enemy’
Using the hashtag #NotTheEnemy, reporters and ordinary citizens took to Twitter to share stories of journalists killed doing their jobs.
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Jacksonian History Repeats Itself With America’s Fiery Populist Uprising
As it was in the 1830s, 40s and in 1860, it is again today.
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Thomas Jefferson’s Record on Slavery Wasn’t All Bad
Though he owned slaves, he banned the slave trade as president.
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