Letters: Vote yes on Prop. 50 and stand up for democracy

Vote yes for democracy. Vote yes on Proposition 50. I am voting for Yan Zhao for county assessor. Zhao has years of ...

How a young Jefferson’s plea to the King helped ignite America’s fight for independence

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...
Opinion

Commentary: America's pre-Civil War struggle with slavery

Gettysburg Address, the fight against slavery and the battle for freedom provide historical perspective on principles of the Revolution and practice of slavery ...

There’s Still a Shared American Story, and JD Vance’s Blood-and-Soil Vision Isn’t It

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Joseph J. Ellis Doesn’t Think You Would Have Abolished Slavery, Either

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of ...

Jefferson’s paradox: How one of the largest slaveholders penned the words “All men are created equal”

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...