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The Finch Interested Me | Donovan Hohn In memory of Lewis H. Lapham.

“Lewis hoped his namesake magazine would survive him. He believed it could and should survive him … We believe LQ should live on because there is no magazine like it in American letters.” Read LQ acting editor Donovan Hohn on LQ founding editor Lewis Lapham. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/f...

Fake Jefferson quotation. Do better, Bluesky people.
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The World in Time: Lewis H. Lapham, Part One The World In Time returns.

Listen to the first episode of the new season of The World in Time.

“This episode, my first behind the microphone, won’t be a conversation, but it will be a duet. I’ll be sharing the microphone with Lewis Lapham.”

These Founding Fathers Were Frenemies. Maybe We Can Learn Something.

Great to see Monticello's work featured in the New York Times today.

"Monticello is asking a question: Can leaning into the messy, complicated, nasty, origins of our partisan political system save us?"

Thank you, Brent :)

Thanks, Rob!!

Thanks, Adam! So happy to have been your advisee these several years. Thank you for believing in me.

Opinion | LeBron James, father and son As his incomparable career enters another transition, King James places fatherhood front and center.

"LeBron’s coming of age as a father who grew up without one himself is the most compelling part of this story. No one hands you the bible of fatherhood when you become one; there is no Fatherhood University at which you can earn an advanced degree."

Ancient Hunting Kit Is Found in West Texas The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America.

Ancient Hunting Kit Is Found in West Texas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.

Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

Lapham’s Quarterly to Be Acquired by Bard College The beloved magazine started by Lewis Lapham, who died last year, is being acquired by Bard College.

I'm pleased that Lapham's Quarterly will live on at Bard College, its new intellectual home.

A few years ago, researchers in Madison, WI contacted me to ask to be put in touch with descendants of Eston Hemings Jefferson, youngest son of Jefferson and Sally Hemings. They wanted to work w descendants to restore his headstone. Today, I learned from that the headstone has been restored.

YouTube video by Beinecke Library at Yale Common Sense by Thomas Paine, read by Professor Joanne Freeman

"In America, THE LAW IS KING."

Thomas Paine, 1776.

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The Declaration of Independence and Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, which he considered one of his three greatest achievements.

Now is a good time to remind folks about the Declaration of Independence.

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Thomas Jefferson, a six-part documentary on the History Channel, premieres tonight at 8 PM ET.

Happy Presidents Day! Looking for a read to honor the day? Dig into presidential history with these brilliant books by @lmchervinsky.bsky.social!

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Historians occasionally make fun of Jefferson for alleging that some Americans wanted a king, or something like a king. That strain of thinking was real and, apparently, never went away.

The trailer for History Channel's 6-hour (!) docuseries on Thomas Jefferson's life is now available. Premieres on February 17.

Thrilling to see archaeologists working on Monticello's East Lawn.

Great to be in conversation with Dr. Kerri Greenidge about her latest book THE GRIMKES at Monticello last night.

This job is now listed on the NCPH site

#VastEarlyAmerica

Paycor at Monticello

Monticello is hiring a historian and assistant director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies! This new hire will be a key collaborator and will direct our fellowship program. Please send it to someone who could be interested!

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Safe travels!

Discover Why Thomas Jefferson Meticulously Monitored the Weather Wherever He Went The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans' daily lives as farmers and enslavers

Learn how and why Thomas Jefferson, citizen scientist, tracked the weather. Learned a lot researching + writing this for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🗃️ ✍️ #skystorians www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...

Johnson attributes prayer to Thomas Jefferson, but there’s no proof he said it According to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, there’s no evidence that the third president of the United States ever recited a prayer for the nation, as Mike Johnson suggested.

There's a page on Monticello's website about this particular spurious quote.

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Jimmy Carter and Motown Founder Berry Gordy’s Surprising Connection According to a detailed family history compiled by one of the former president’s sons, the two men shared a common ancestor in 19th-century Georgia.

Jimmy Carter and Motown Founder Berry Gordy’s Surprising Connection www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/a...

Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency) Amazon.com: Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency): 9780813949291: Chervinsky, Lindsay M., Costello, Matthew R.: Books

President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. For those interested in how Americans have mourned the deaths of chief executives, read MOURNING THE PRESIDENTS: LOSS AND LEGACY IN AMERICAN CULTURE (2023). I contributed a chapter on Jefferson's death.

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Lewis H. Lapham, Harper’s Editor and Piercing Columnist, Dies at 89 Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

Lapham was memorialized as one of the New York Times' "notable deaths" of 2024.

More hopeful news about the future of Lapham's Quarterly.

For the author in question, it could be a status thing to have 90K followers, irrespective of engagement.