Thomas Jefferson

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  9/8/2020
  

  Why Thomas Jefferson Created His Own Bible

  by Peter Manseau

  The "Jefferson Bible," representing Thomas Jefferson's efforts to excise the supernatural and miraculous from the New Testament, is an important document of American religious culture. The story of its preservation by Cyrus Adler and John Fletcher Lacey is a remarkable tale as well that reflects changes in the political nature of American religion.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/13/2020
  

  A Powerful New Memorial To UVA’s Enslaved Workers Reclaims Lost Lives And Forgotten Narratives

  The memorial's design uses "memory marks" to stand in for the names of enslaved people whose labors built the university.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/13/2020
  

  We Can Tear Down False Idols of History. Thomas Jefferson Did it to Jesus Christ

  by Peter Manseau

  "Considering “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth” anew today, we might begin by asking whether Jefferson’s willingness to challenge convention gives the lie to a justification of his many failings as unavoidable for a man of his time."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/6/2020
  

  I’m a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Take Down His Memorial.

  by Lucian K. Truscott IV

  it’s time to honor one of our founding mothers, a woman who fought as an escaped slave to free those still enslaved, who fought as an armed scout for the Union Army against the Confederacy — a woman who helped to bring into being a more perfect union after slavery, a process that continues to this day. In Jefferson’s place, there should be another statue. It should be of Harriet Tubman.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  6/29/2020
  

  Why Thomas Jefferson's Anti-Slavery Passage Was Removed from the Declaration of Independence

  To call slavery a “cruel war against human nature itself” may have accurately reflected the values of many of the founders, but it also underscored the paradox between what they said and what they did.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Tear Down that Statue, Mr. Macron!

  by Marlene L. Daut

  Four figures from French history whose statues could replace that of Jefferson in Paris.

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• SOURCE: Paris Review
  5/21/2020
  

  America’s First Connoisseur

  James Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, taught his fellow slaves at Monticello everything he knew about food, transmitting his influence down the generations, onto the tables of Virginia’s social elite.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  Historic Houses Turn to Technology Amid COVID-19 Closures

  by Hana Hancock

  Historic home sites have responded to the COVID crisis by developing online exhibits. More work remains to be done, and many cultural and historical institutions are in financial peril from the crisis, reports HNN's Social Media Editor. 

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Thomas Jefferson, Yellow Fever, and Land Planning for Public Health

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Although Thomas Jefferson was generally an anti-urbanist, he did offer insight into the role of land use in helping towns and cities control epidemics and promote public health.

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• 2/23/20
  

  The Myth of Thomas Jefferson’s Inscrutability

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Political discrepancies between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton centered on contradictory interpretations of the U.S. Constitution.

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• 2/2/20
  

  Why Thomas Jefferson Was Really No Friend of Religious Freedom

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Thomas Jefferson, because of the passage of his Bill for the Establishment of Religious Freedom, is customarily viewed by scholars as a paladin of religious freedom. Yet there is reason to question that view.

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• 12/29/19
  

  What a Line Deleted from the Declaration of Independence Teaches Us About Thomas Jefferson

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Congress deleted the line to avoid tackling issue of slavery. 

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Losing Sight of Jefferson and Falling into Plato

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Socratic Styled Teaching in Twenty-First Century American Classrooms

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  November 1, 2019
  

  Alan Taylor's Book Reviewed in the Washington Post: Thomas Jefferson’s Education

  by Drew Faust

  How slavery warped Jefferson’s vision for the University of Virginia.

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• 10/27/2019
  

  Did Jefferson Think Humans Occupied a Privileged Position in the Cosmos?

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Just where did humans fit in the wondrous and gargantuan cosmos for Thomas Jefferson?

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• 10/6/19
  

  On Weather and History

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Thomas Jefferson’s Climate-Induced “Philosophical Hangover” Explained.

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• 9/22/19
  

  What To Know About the History of Emoluments and Impeachment

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  If, as charged by some in Congress, President Trump did in fact receive emoluments, he would only have adhered to an all-but-hallowed American tradition that dates back to the nation’s origins—and even earlier.

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• 9/8/19
  

  “The thinking power called an idea”: Thomas Jefferson and the Right to Patents

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  “Every discovery which multiplies the subsistence of man, must be a matter of joy to every friend to humanity.”

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/5/2019
  

  Charlottesville’s Complicated Relationship With Thomas Jefferson

  Council’s vote to stop celebrating Founding Father’s birthday is latest twist

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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.