Anas

This 30-page publication, released into the wild in November of 2020, is the result of a decision stop pestering my friends and coworkers with my fun history facts and puzzlings over the historical questions that perplex me. Instead, I put those facts and questions into a printed and hand-bound essay, complete with footnotes and illustrations, named after Thomas Jefferson’s Anas.

Issue one focuses on the correspondence and friendship of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, and follows them from their first exchanged letters in 1780 to Madison’s death in 1863. I would describe the tone as fondly irreverent. PDF will be available just as soon as I can get access to a macOS computer so I can rescue it from my dead computer’s hard drive.

Issue two hasn’t begun to be drafted yet, but current potential subject matter is a tossup between Margaret Bayard Smith and chess world championships.