Thomas Jefferson
Total 4 Posts
Who invented the Electoral College?
6 min read
Three approaches were debated during the Constitutional Convention – election by Congress, selection by state legislatures and a popular election, though that was restricted to white landowning men.
If Trump refuses to accept defeat in November, the republic will survive intact, as it has 5 out of 6 times in the past.
5 min read
Five of the six contested presidential elections in U.S. history were resolved and the country moved on – one ended in civil war. What will happen if the upcoming election is contested?
How to determine which statues remain and which statues go.
8 min read
Whatever is done it must be done non-violently, democratically and culturally inclusively, Isaac Newton Farris Jr. writes.
The colors of our bodies — Why whiteness is the problem.
4 min read
Black bodies can die by accident, obviously. But they are also killed by whites carrying out whiteness. When this happens, it is never an accident, a Professor of American History writes.