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I'm headed to Wash U in St. Louis for a book talk next month, so I did a Q&A about my book with their library. Looking forward to talking about Washington, slavery, and memory at a place really grappling with those questions. library.washu.edu/news/qa-with...

library.washu.eduQ&A with Author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery - WashU LibrariesIn the following interview, John Garrison Marks, historian and author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (2026), explores the relationship bet...

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Reading it now. The number of places Sol Bloom pops up still always surprises me. At some point I should just assume if an event had more than 500 people in the first half of the 20th century, he's behind the scenes.