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Memorializing Jefferson?

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On October 19, 2021
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 taken down: For more than 100 years, a 7-foot-tall statue […]
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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 most inveterate and racist of self-proclaimed Jefferson defenders deny this […]
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Jefferson/Jackson

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On August 11, 2015
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 had ideals modern Democrats can believe in, hypocrite as he […]

Bad Advice

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On January 18, 2013
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 a lesson from your long since deceased predecessor Thomas Jefferson. […]
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