New perspectives on how history is made
"The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed."
Why George Mason rightly deserves to be considered one of the fathers of our national government.
Jefferson’s Radical Redefinition of “Aristoi” for a Thriving Jeffersonian Republic.
It’s not the Constitutionality of Trump’s Wall, but Its Morality that Matters
Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous.
Jefferson was the “most quintessential American Founder of them all.”
And why he periodically attended religious services and sang and prayed at such services when his god was deaf to supplication and praise.
A banner from the Smithsonian collections lays out the stakes of Jefferson vs. Adams.
Here’s what they’ve been missing.
In an interview Haselby recounts his differences with Gordon-Reed over Jefferson’s religious beliefs.
He barely is acknowledged in the play, "Hamilton."
The United States we have today is not Jefferson’s, but Hamilton’s. Why? Because once the Hamiltonian system was set, it stuck. It worked.
Washington called the shots.
Brian Balogh and Peter Onus say “modern liberalism was not very good on race.”
At both the University of Missouri at Columbia and the College of William & Mary, critics have been placing yellow sticky notes on Jefferson statues, labeling him -- among other things -- "rapist" and "racist."
James Madison thought he was horribly wrong. Pope Francis, who has called for the redistribution of wealth, should understand why.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
“Lincoln hated Thomas Jefferson.”
A fresh review of Jefferson’s presidency shows that a guiding principle was to do the opposite of what Washington did.
Most scholars today believe that Thomas Jefferson had a lengthy affair with slave Sally Heming. Could they be wrong?
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