The media coverage of the decision to exonerate the policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager has focused on the ‘night of rage’ in Ferguson, Missouri. Tragedies like Michael Brown’s in Missouri and Trayvon Martin’s
Of Washington’s iconic buildings, the United States Capitol is, with the exception perhaps of the White House, the most famous and historic. When Thomas Jefferson commissioned it in 1792, he planned a far more modest
On October 7 2013, I officially became an AHRC-funded fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. However, my induction did not take place at the Library’s classical Jefferson Building,