From the Wilson Quarterly, history professor Anders Hendriksson compiles verbatim excerpts from several decades’ worth of freshmen papers, so offering their “more striking insights into European history from the Middle Ages to the present.” Here’s the beginning: History, as we know, is always bias, because human beings have to be studied by other human beings, [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reviews In Defense of Thomas Jefferson, a book that concludes, emphatically, that the male Jefferson family member who fathered Eston Hemings could have been any one of at least seven males. There were, [author William G. Hyland Jr.] notes, “two dozen-plus Jefferson males (with DNA markers in common) roaming Virginia at [...]

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For all you tweeters out there, you can now check us out on twitter at the @encyclopediaVA handle. Although we’ve been on twitter for a little while, we are just now starting to use it to send timely content about Virginia’s history and culture. Because of the flexibility of our content, we’re using the Twitter [...]

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