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Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
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This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

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My law review note was about the right to publicity.

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Congratulations!

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What a year to be the president of the Organization of American Historians. We’ll meet in Philadelphia in April, 2026. What I think I will say in my presidential address changes weekly.

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Nearly 250 years of a republic struggling to live up to the ideals of its founding documents only to arrive here.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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These people want slavery back so bad…

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Black Dandy Exhibit at the Met. Second photo is of Frederick Douglass’s clothing. Wow. Was surprised at how affecting it was to just see them and know he wore these things. Du Bois’s photo powerful, but in a different way.

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Congratulations!

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I’m not given much to asking, “ What would Mr. Jefferson do?”, but this is the perfect moment to ask that. Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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Congratulations!

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University of Virginia President Under Pressure From Trump’s D.O.J. to Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

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www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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BREAKING: Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned prize-winning TV journalist, has died at 91.

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youtu.be/GiGmE1AjC7Q

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Sickening.

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Hey little woman, please make up your mind. You’ve got to come into my world and leave your world behind!”

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Nothing this criminal regime does is popular. That’s the point. We’ve arrived at a place where democratic will has been so undermined that the wealth class can enact any awful and transparently inhuman thing they want. This will not change until we reassert our democratic power.

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Wonderful evening talking about the Declaration of Independence over the years with David Blight, Akhil Reed Amar, and Jeff Rosen at the National Convention Center.

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Excellent piece by my Columbia law colleagues explaining the faulty logic in last week's dismissal of the Columbia AAUP case against the Trump administration.

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I present to you, via the Church of England, the oldest English translation of the Nicene Creed, written in the year 992. ⚓️

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www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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From The New Yorker, Ivan Ehlers

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It was in my children’s school. In kindergarten they did gym one day swim the next day. As they got older, it went to one week swim and one week of gym. Both are strong swimmers today. Far too many Black Americans don’t know how to swim.

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This is an interesting article. I’ve wondered about this myself. Not in the context of dating because I’ve been out of that world for decades, but just going places and not seeing that many men. Men, Where Have You Gone? Please Come Back. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/s...

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Hahahaha! Yes!

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The framing is terrible.

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FYI fellow Southern New Englanders: Extreme Heat Warning now in effect from tomorrow through Tuesday

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