American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America by David O. Stewart

On December 18, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, by Editor

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades.

Change Made by Thomas Jefferson in Original Declaration of Independence Draft

On July 4, 2010, in Political Comments, by Editor

Jefferson originally had written the phrase “our fellow subjects.” But he apparently changed his mind. Heavily scrawled over the word “subjects” was an alternative, the word “citizens.”