As we have debates over historical memory, one of the trickiest figures in Thomas Jefferson. Who embodies both the potential and the hypocrisy of this nation more than he? In New York, there's a big ol' statue of TJ in City Hall. It's now being...
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As we deal with our racist past and the white supremacist statues across the country, things start getting difficult when we move beyond those who have obvious consensus as horrible.
This is the grave of Thomas Jefferson. I am not going to provide a biography of Thomas Jefferson. It's not really necessary and to do it justice, it would take.
This is the slave graveyard at Monticello. The debate about Thomas Jefferson and slavery is now completely settled. Thanks to DNA and to scholars such as Annette Gordon-Reed exploring in great detail and nuance Jefferson's relationships with slavery, which of course included sexual, only the...
This is a few days old, but it is still worth a mention. When archaeologists discovered Sally Hemings' cabin at Monticello, NBC News and many other news outlets reported it.
Above: Theodore Roosevelt, Virulent Racist The recent debates over which Americans to honor with statues, building names, and other monuments, is welcome. History should be debated. The present is not.
It's good to see Democrats move away from Jefferson/Jackson dinners at the state level. There's no real reason to tie the party to two long dead white slaveowning men who believed in white agrarian rule. I'm more ambiguous about dropping Jefferson since at least he...
There is evidently no trend in American history historians won't connect to Thomas Jefferson and that includes the recent emphasis on food. This is an interesting piece on the vegetable.
Happy Alexander Hamilton Publicly Accuses Thomas Jefferson of Sex with Slaves Anniversary.
Jon Meacham, presidential biographer and evidently person who does not understand the presidencies he studies, offers some really bizarre advice for Barack Obama in his second term: With his second inauguration just a few days away, Jon Meacham has some advice for President Obama: Take...
This Henry Wiencek piece at Smithsonian on Thomas Jefferson's dark side has half-perplexed me, yet the reactions show why it is so necessary. The piece essentially argues that Jefferson was.
Peter J. Hatch, the Director of Gardens and Grounds at Monticello has written a fascinating new book entitled “A Rich Spot of Earth”: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello. A.