musiciansstudiosEbony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. By Craig Steven...Malone, ChristopherStan Kenton Collection
Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia,” itself an anti-slavery tract, had passed through seven editions. Judge St. George Tucker, law-professor in William and Mary College, had recently published his noble work, “A Dissertation on Slavery, with a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the...
but not that affirmative action as a concept was unconstitutional, citingGrutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 ruling on affirmative action in which, as Kennedy explained in his opinion, "the Court upheld the use of race as one of many '
Thomas Jefferson - Slavery, Racism, Politics: Even before his departure from France, Jefferson had overseen the publication of Notes on the State of Virginia. This book, the only one Jefferson ever published, was part travel guide, part scientific treati
Thomas Jefferson - Retirement, Politics, Legacy: During the last 17 years of his life Jefferson maintained a crowded and active schedule. He rose with the dawn each day, bathed his feet in cold water, then spent the morning on his correspondence (one yea
and carbon emissions. Piketty pointed out that “in the absence of such accords, the risk is that the race to the bottom will continue, fiscal dumping will increase, inequality will continue to rise, and xenophobic, identarian, anti-immigrant political parties will continue to exploit the situat...