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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

A Mother’s Secret

by Werner Gundersheimer

In this 2011 essay, Werner Gundersheimer remembers his mother’s efforts to preserve a version of his childhood free of the Holocaust’s painful scars. “We all know that memory is selective, and that the mind blots out what it can’t bear to retain,” he writes. “For [Mom], the past was always present, and the only way to keep it at bay was to steer clear of it.”

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