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The founders made it very difficult to amend the Constitution. Today six people on the Supreme Court amended the Constitution, greatly increasing presidential power in perpetuity. Breathtakingly arrogant abuse of power.

I'm excited to share that my new ensemble biography project will be published by Simon & Schuster. Dawn Davis and 37 INK will be editing!

Very grateful to Brenda Wineapple for her review of LIFE AND TIMES in the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS. It's not all roses, but Wineapple captures the talent and genius of Hannah Bond the artist! nybooks.com/articles/2024/… via The New York Review of Books

A major highlight from the week: I asked Hollis Robbins, Martin Puchner, @ShadiBartsch, Henry Oliver, and James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ how the humanities should respond to AI. Their responses were eyeopening. Marginal Revolution linked it, as did Power Line. (Thanks tylercowen and Steven F. Hayward!)

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS has won The American Book Award! Ceremony is in San Francisco on Oct 27. My deepest thanks to The Before Columbus Foundation! kirkusreviews.com/news-and-featu… #kirkusreviews

I am thrilled LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS is a finalist for The Christian Gauss Book Award for excellence in literary scholarship and criticism. It is an honor to be named among these books! Thank you Phi Beta Kappa reviewers!

Unboxing the paperback edition of THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS! On sale beginning Tuesday, October 15! Ecco

I'm thrilled to share that THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS has been awarded The Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship! Ecco A big thanks to the judges and to the amazing finalists for the prize, too!

Gregg Hecimovich's "The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts" receives Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award, one of the most coveted prizes in literary criticism. tinyurl.com/yf7manzu Furman University Vanderbilt Alumni Carolina Alumni Ecco Gregg Hecimovich Henry Louis Gates Jr

“Novels are acts of hope.” Hannah Crafts’s life story can inspire us in perilous times. If you are in DC area today, I’ll be sharing Crafts’s story at Georgetown U @ 5 PM

BIOGRAPHY AT THE 2024 AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS — Several biographies won awards: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS by Gregg Hecimovich (Ecco); MERZE TATE by Barbara D. Savage (Yale University Press); and THE 272 by Rachel L. Swarns (Random House). #biography #lifewriting

Before Loving, there was the Rhinelander case. The Rhinelanders married 100 years ago. Then, Leonard sued Alice saying she tricked him into believing she was white. The nation was riveted. My Smithsonian story. smithsonianmag.com/history/how-an…

I’m happy to share great news from 2024 PEN America Literary Awards: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANNAH CRAFTS has been selected for the Longlist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography! pen.org/2024-pen-ameri…

Big thanks to the brilliant critic, Elizabeth Taylor, for this review of biography finalists for the National Book Critics Circle 2024 awards, including LIFE AND TIMES. I LOVED each of these titles. fivebooks.com/best-books/bes…

"Virtually every page contains brilliant insights about literacy, authorship, trauma, memory, language, and resistance." Thank you MLA Book Awards Committee! mla.org/Resources/Care…

An Executive Order came out targeting sculptures and National Parks. Why? The way to make policy work is through controlling the NARRATIVE. And one of the main ways we have done that in society is through the work of culture, the arts, even through sculpture. You believe what

gf.org/stories/announ… I'm thrilled to share that I have been selected as a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of Biography in support of my next ensemble biography, THE COLUMBIA SEVEN!

Congratulations to Henry Louis Gates Jr! A building! Now that's something. bostonrealestatetimes.com/american-ances…

Soren's high school graduation weekend. So thankful for family and friends who joined us in Chapel Hill to celebrate!

I love how the great Henry Louis Gates Jr sees genealogy as a gift and a responsibility. Here, meticulous research challenges us to better grasp "the endlessly fascinating, multifarious geographical and ethnic threads that make up our grand national story." nytimes.com/interactive/20…