Thomas Jefferson

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• 2/16/19
  

  Do We Make Writing on Jefferson Harder than It Really Is?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous.

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• 2/3/19
  

  To Free or Not to Free

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  A Theoretical Botheration with Jefferson’s View of Slavery

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/16/19
  

  State of the Union: What would Jefferson do?

  by Karen Tumulty

  Pelosi's proposal was not as radical as it might sound.

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• 12/15/2018
  

  Is Monticello Monetizing Race at Jefferson’s Expense?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The foundation that runs Monticello is using public funds to perpetuate a slave narrative that is open to question.

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• 12/30/2018
  

  Thomas Jefferson’s Bizarre Fear of Monarchism (and Hume)

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Why Hume was much more “liberal” than Jefferson.

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• 12/2/18
  

  Why Jefferson Advised Against the Study of Morality

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  He didn’t believe you could reason your way to morality.

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• 9/15/18
  

  Did Thomas Jefferson Have a Consistent Message on Free Presses?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The evidence shows a gap between his approbation of a free press and his experience with it. 

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• 9/23/18
  

  How Thomas Jefferson Illuminates the Politics of Race

  by Donald J. Fraser

  No American of the early Republic so reflected the ambivalent view of slavery and injustice towards African-Americans as Jefferson.

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• 7-4-18
  

  Did Jefferson Really Write the Declaration of Independence?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  The public widely gives Jefferson credit. Scholars, in dissent, have often said multiple hands were involved. Who’s right?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-15-18
  

  Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  For centuries, historians denied Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings. This exhibit has been a long time coming, but better late than never.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-16-18
  

  Monticello Is Done Avoiding Jefferson’s Relationship With Sally Hemings

  A new exhibit grapples with the reality of slavery and deals a final blow to two centuries of ignoring or covering up what amounted to an open secret.

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• 6-15-18
  

  The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Now Claims He Fathered Six Children with Sally Hemings

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  But is the matter really settled?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-13-18
  

  Jefferson’s Monticello finally gives Sally Hemings her place in presidential history

  On Saturday, Monticello will open the room to the public, with a small exhibition devoted to the life of Hemings and the Hemings family.

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• 5/6/18
  

  Monticello Claims to Have Found Sally Hemings’s Room. Is This True?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak and Vivienne Kelley

  No one knows. But because sex fascinates and it sells, Monticello is ripping up floors and preparing to establish a new tourist attraction.

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• 5/6/18
  

  The Founders Worried too, About Foreign Meddling in Our Elections

  by Jeanne Abrams

  John Adams went so far as to advocate the holding of fewer elections on the grounds that would give foreigners less opportunity to interfere.

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• 9/30/18
  

  Are Jefferson’s Not-So-Radical Religious Views a Remedy for the Moral Illnesses of Our Day?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  We might find them a cure for the moral illnesses of our day: inauthenticity, cravenness, unconcern, mendacity, injustice, and ignorance.

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• SOURCE: The Cavalier Daily
  3-26-18
  

  Ibram X. Kendi tells UVA crowd we need a national conversation about whether we should be memorializing Jefferson

  He suggested that students at the University of Virginia should lead the way.

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• 3/4/18
  

  Worried About Political Partisanship?

  by Gordon S. Wood

  Adams and Jefferson showed that even the harshest partisans can enjoy a warm friendship. (It helped that they had a common enemy.)

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-25-18
  

  How did we lose a president’s daughter?

  by Catherine Kerrison

  What the disappearance of Thomas Jefferson's daughter can tell us about racism in America.

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• 4/1/18
  

  What’s Ailing Us? This Is What Jefferson Would Say.

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Ethology studies back him up.