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Christopher Clausen

Christopher Clausen is the author of Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-Cultural America.

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Between Two Worlds

The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father

by Christopher Clausen | Friday, June 01, 2007
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The Most Important Election in History

Is it possible to elect a president without invoking that phrase?

by Christopher Clausen | Monday, September 01, 2008
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Sesquicentennial Excess

Must we erase evidence of later commemorations at Civil War sites?

by Christopher Clausen | Monday, June 01, 2009

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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