--- title: Robert G. Parkinson | TIME description: Robert G. Parkinson is associate professor of history at Binghamton University and the author of Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence. canonical: https://time.com/author/robert-g-parkinson/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/robert-g-parkinson/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Robert G. Parkinson ## Robert G. Parkinson Robert G. Parkinson is associate professor of history at Binghamton University and the author of [_Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence_](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781469662572)_._ ## Robert G. Parkinson * ![A painting by John Trumbull, 'Signing the Declaration of Independence, 28th June 1776' commissioned 1817, showing Thomas Jefferson and the drafting committee presenting the document to John Hancock.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e19b54870ab9875/698a1ac822fb85a020e2c4e7/1776-racism.jpeg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jul 4, 2021 ### [You Can't Tell the Story of 1776 Without Talking About Race](https://time.com/6077468/united-states-1776-racism-slavery/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/robert-g-parkinson/","name":"Robert G. Parkinson"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/robert-g-parkinson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/robert-g-parkinson/"},"name":"Robert G. Parkinson","jobTitle":null,"description":"Robert G. Parkinson is associate professor of history at Binghamton University and the author of Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence.","url":"https://time.com/author/robert-g-parkinson/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```