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Thomas Craughwell

Thomas J. Craughwell is the author of the Thomas Jefferson’s Crème Brûlée: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America (Quirk, September 2012). His other books include The Greatest Brigade: How the Irish Brigade Cleared the Way to Victory in the Civil War (Fair Winds, 2011) and Stealing Lincoln’s Body (Harvard University Press, 2007).
by | Jul 20, 2017

Wade Seago of Samson, Alabama, knew something was amiss when his daughter started screaming and his schnauzer started barking. From…

by | Jul 18, 2017

Olivia de Havilland is going to court. The day before her 101st birthday, the grande dame of Hollywood’s Golden Age…

by | Jul 6, 2017

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by | Jun 27, 2017

Let’s be honest: the homeliest president was Abraham Lincoln. That lopsided face. Those ginormous ears. The perpetual bad hair. And…

by | Jun 25, 2017

“Send bombers, and turn North Korea into a parking lot.” That was my initial knee-jerk reaction when I heard that…

by | Jun 22, 2017

The two women invited to the Dirksen Senate Office Building last week seemed like the kind of expert witnesses any…

by | Jun 21, 2017

If today F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway had their famous exchange about the rich, it probably would go like…

by | Jun 18, 2017

In what ranks as one of the most generous collaborations between two colleges, the Moody Center, a training institute for…

by | Jun 14, 2017

That hang-over from the mid-1960s, the theology of bad taste, has opened shop in Detroit. It began with a letter…

by | Jun 8, 2017

Democrats just aren’t fun anymore. Chuck Schumer? He’d trample his grandmother if she stood between him and a cable news…

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