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T. H. Breen

T. H. Breen is a James Marsh Professor at large at the University of Vermont. His most recent book is George Washington’s Journey: The President Forges a New Nation.

The Colonial Melting Pot

The Colonial Melting Pot

Six very different people in a war of liberation

by T. H. Breen | Monday, December 04, 2017
The Ill-Fated Mission

The Ill-Fated Mission

To spread the good word

by T. H. Breen | Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Confounding Father

Confounding Father

Thomas Jefferson and the economics of slavery

by T. H. Breen | Thursday, October 04, 2012

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died this 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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