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The museum envisioned by Wilder, a descendant of slaves, will unabashedly be a museum about the brutal merchandising of human beings. The Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which cost $110 million to build and hopes to attract 250,000 visitors each year, has wider ambitions. Or looked at another way, it...
DIED. SUSAN ALSOP, 86, Washington doyenne whose dinner parties during the 1960s were attended by the elite of politics, media and diplomacy; in Washington. A descendant of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S., she grew up in privileged society, dining with Presidents and Prime Ministers. Widowed in...
John Kerry's critics like to say he is not actually from Massachusetts. That's a quibble. Kerry has lived in the Boston area more than anywhere else for at least 41 of his 60 years. He is a direct descendant of the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
One of the ancient traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church is the yurodivy, the holy fool who naively yet fearlessly speaks truth to power. Someone like that appeared on July 14 in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior, at the memorial service for Paul Klebnikov, the murdered editor in...
Several members of the association have become empathetic with the other side of the family. John Works' brother David Works is one of those converts. An eighth-generation descendant of Jefferson, he says of the connection, "I bragged about it as a kid." When the Hemings first showed up at...