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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 | Mar 23, 2017

More than a decade ago, I was working with a publisher who was experiencing a crisis of conscience. Printing books…

by | Mar 22, 2017

About 100 years ago I decided to give up my job in New York, enroll at a big Midwest university,…

by | Mar 17, 2017

A few weeks ago, Father John I. Jenkins, C.S.C, president of the University of Notre Dame, came to Washington. He…

by | Mar 16, 2017

We knew that Russia wouldn’t stop at the Crimea, but now they’ve gone too far. Just days before March 17,…

by | Mar 2, 2017

It’s bad enough that Donald Trump has the Democrats arrayed against him, now he has to contend with Hell and…

by | Feb 27, 2017

I’m a Jersey boy. I grew up in a wonderful small town called Hawthorne. You’ve probably never heard of it,…

by | Feb 7, 2017

Early on a Thursday evening in April 2016, family members, friends, and the faithful at large gathered at Sacred Heart…

by | Jan 26, 2017

Moving into the White House has got to be a daunting task. All those rooms and corridors to navigate. All…

by | Jan 20, 2017

About a century ago, the Ku Klux Klan spearheaded a coalition of anti-Catholic organizations in Nebraska to lobby the state…

by | Jan 18, 2017

I don’t know if Donald Trump is the most thin-skinned candidate we’ve elected president. When it came to criticism, John…

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