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Maya Jasanoff

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Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots

From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.

by Maya Jasanoff via The New Yorker on May 2, 2022
Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

by Robert Allison, Seth Cotlar, Manuel Covo, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Maya Jasanoff, Robert G. Parkinson, Carla Gardina Pestana, Andrew Schocket, Alexander Tsesis, Zara Anishanslin, Kathleen DuVal, Caitlin Fitz, Annette Gordon-Reed, Tiya Miles, Johann N. Neem, Peter S. Onuf, Steven Pincus, Jack Rakove, Gautham Rao, Claudio Saunt, Karin Wulf, Nicole Eustace, Sarah Georgini via Declaration Resources Project on June 1, 2017

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Agronomist George Tynes, flanked by Soviet army cadets

Brave New World

In the 1930s, 16 African-American families from the South rejected the American experiment and looked to Communist Uzbekistan for a chance to build a new world.

via BackStory on November 11, 2016

Benjamin West's replica of his painting "Reception of the American Loyalists by Great Britain in the Year 1783."

The Loyal Opposition

On the Loyalists who fled during the Revolutionary War – like Jacob Bailey, who saw freedom from tyranny with the British in Nova Scotia.

via BackStory on November 11, 2016

Silhouette of a Black man's head, against a background of Lord Dunmore's proclamation.

Enslaved by George Washington, This Man Escaped to Freedom—and Joined the British Army

Harry Washington fought for his enslaver's enemy during the American Revolution. Later, he migrated to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone.

by Francine Uenuma via Smithsonian on June 14, 2023

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