Amir Alexander

Jun 4, 2024 | historynewsnetwork.org | Amir Alexander

For long before Thomas Jefferson became a Founding Father of the United States, the future president’s ambition was to be something else entirely: a mathematician. “When I was young mathematics was the passion of my life,” Jefferson wrote to his friend, the lawyer and politician William Duane, when he was approaching his 70th year and musing on a road not taken.

Jun 2, 2024 | newsexplorer.net | John Kaag |Adam Higginbotham |Victor Davis Hanson |Amir Alexander

By John Kaag | Farrar, Straus and GirouxHow the Blood clan wove itself first into the settling of New England and later into the founding of a new nation-and into the conflicts that followed. Review by Randall FullerRead the reviewBy Adam Higginbotham | Avid ReaderRules were observed, protocols followed, but the launch of the space shuttle Challenger still turned to tragedy. Review by James B.