Institutionalized Wokism as the Norm in Jeffersonian Scholarship – Abbeville Institute

Institutionalized Wokism as the Norm in Jeffersonian Scholarship – Abbeville Institute

Abbeville Institute Press recently (2025) published my book–Sally Hemings, Race, and Song-and-Dance Historiography: The Corruption of Jefferson Scholarship by Institutional Wokeism. The book has 24 short, easily digestible essays—inasmuch as my writings can be construed as easily digestible!—in  three sections. I proffer some comments on why I wrote the book. In the introduction I define “wokeism” roughly as “being awake...