A new biography maps out the moral tensions that tormented his mind and tainted his legacy. Thomas Jefferson continues to inspire and divide Americans. Even though he still ranks in the top 10 in ...
Thomas Jefferson was an elusive, contradictory person. He was sort of against slavery, and he sort of wasn’t. He extolled limited government, then purchased Louisiana — doubling the size of the nation ...
"This book is based on volumes 1-19 of The papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd and others, published by Princeton University Press." ...
Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of division and a bloodbath that cost thousands of Americans ...
"Revision by Dumas Malone of the article published in 1933 in Volume IX of the Dictionary of American Biography."--T.p. verso. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20 ...
Late one afternoon in May, a large group of people wearing name tags gathered under the shade of a giant tulip poplar tree on the south terrace of Monticello. As the last of the day’s tourists were ...
Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and author of the ...
Kaplan, an acclaimed biographer, is the author of the new book His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer Jefferson had addressed the topic of slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, and ...
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