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Who Really Wrote ‘the Pursuit of Happiness’?
The voice of Doctor Johnson, archcritic of the American Revolution, was constantly in mind for the Declaration of Independence’s drafter.
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Peter Moore
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The Atlantic
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July 4, 2023
Meet Thomas Jefferson
Portraying a 19th-century president.
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C. J. Bartunek
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Oxford American
on
June 6, 2023
Jefferson’s Secret Plan to Whiten Virginia
Jefferson’s system depended on shoring up the bulwarks of race and basing the law on a theory of government that withdrew protection from unfavored groups.
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Timothy Messer-Kruse
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Commonplace
on
April 19, 2023
Doubting Thomas
Is Jefferson's Bible evidence that the Founding Fathers engaged with scripture to birth a Christian nation? Or that they sought to foster a new secular order?
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Ed Simon
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
November 6, 2022
The Right to Leave
Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?
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Stephanie Degooyer
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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March 29, 2022
Sluts and the Founders
Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.
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Alexis Coe
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Study Marry Kill
on
January 26, 2022
The Comforts of a Single State
Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.
by
Jan Ellen Lewis
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
November 22, 2021
Sunrise at Monticello
Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.
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Michael Liss
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3 Quarks Daily
on
July 19, 2021
What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus
Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.
by
Vinson Cunningham
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The New Yorker
on
December 28, 2020
Thomas Jefferson, Yellow Fever, and Land Planning for Public Health
Jefferson envisioned land-use policies that he hoped would mitigate epidemics – and other urban evils.
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M. Andrew Holowchak
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History News Network
on
April 19, 2020
Historians Write About a Different Jefferson Now: Four Books Show How Different
Four new books show how different, and maybe also why.
by
S. Richard Gard Jr.
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Virginia Magazine
on
December 1, 2019
The Second-Amendment Case for Gun Control
It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.
by
Saul Cornell
via
The New Republic
on
August 4, 2019
James Madison Understood Religious Freedom Better than Jefferson Did
One emphasized the freedom to think; the other, in effect, the freedom to pray.
by
Steven Waldman
via
National Review
on
May 20, 2019
Hero or Villain, Both and Neither: Appraising Thomas Jefferson, 200 Years Later
A Pulitzer historian assesses what we are to make of UVA’s founder, 200 years hence.
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Alan Taylor
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Virginia Magazine
on
November 20, 2018
‘She Was Part of This Family’: Jefferson Descendants Reflect on Sally Hemings Exhibit
Many who trace their roots back to the enslaved community at Monticello are expected to attend the exhibit opening.
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Farah Stockman
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New York Times
on
June 16, 2018
Jefferson’s Monticello Finally Gives Sally Hemings Her Place in Presidential History
New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.
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Philip Kennicott
via
Washington Post
on
June 13, 2018
Mr. Jefferson’s Books & Mr. Madison’s War
The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.
by
Rebecca Brenner Graham
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
May 15, 2018
Thomas Jefferson and Us
The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?
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David Sehat
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William and Mary Quarterly
on
October 1, 2017
Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson and the Ways We Talk About Our Past
Why the words we use to describe Sally Hemings matter.
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Annette Gordon-Reed
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New York Times
on
August 24, 2017
Charlottesville: Why Jefferson Matters
Annette Gordon-Reed explores the ways in which the many paradoxes of Jefferson make him a potent figure for racists and anti-racists alike.
by
Annette Gordon-Reed
via
New York Review of Books
on
August 19, 2017
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