In the series “American Hypo-cracy,” OZY looks at America’s lengthy struggle to live up to its lofty ideals by exploring some of the uglier episodes in its past that are often overlooked by the history books. Eight months after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” in Washington, D.C., another minister and […]
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A look at the daily routine of Thomas Jefferson, who rose early, drank coffee, and wrote a lot
Wikimedia Commons 241 years ago, 33-year-old Thomas Jefferson helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Over the course of his career, he would go on to serve the fledgling United States as governor of Virginia, minister to France, secretary of state, vice president, and, finally, the country’s third president. Despite wearing so many hats in the […]