Oral History Project Grounds Story of Monticello in the Lives of the Enslaved By Danielle Jackson Highlight “Monticello was a Black space. People of African descent shaped the entire landscape: how the food tasted, what the place sounded and felt like.”
What Thomas Jefferson Taught Me About Charlottesville and America By Joshua Adams Feature University of Virginia grad Joshua Adams believes that if you want to understand the recent violence there, look back at history and the school’s complicated founder.
The Immigration-Obsessed, Polarized, Garbage-Fire Election of 1800 By Longreads Feature A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.