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GIVE NOWThere is almost always a tiny little wave of rhetorical consultations of TJ in reaction to each big news story.
I received a book which I feel certain will set many scholarly hearts aflutter here: Incidental Architect: William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794-1828, by Gordon S. Brown
To our detriment, Jefferson's "wall of separation" concept has often been grossly misapplied to individual speech that references religion.
Who's John Soane, you say, and what's he got to do with Thomas Jefferson? And I say: well, architecture, neoclassicism...something like that.
Economists have not-as a general rule-been kind to Jefferson or his financial legacy, preferring instead Hamilton for stabilizing the nation’s weak post-war finances and Adams for avoiding costly commercial or military conflict. They have a point, and even sympathetic historians have been hard pressed to justify Jefferson’s trade policies and occasionally irrational fears of the banking system and paper money.
I did want to highlight our new exhibit, which is singularly appropriate for Mothers' Day. It features Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks, mother of Meriwether Lewis.
Reference question: For whom is Carolina Ramsay Randolph (Thomas Jefferson's great-granddaughter, daughter of his oldest grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph) named?
Some weeks ago a book was returned to us, and its back cover caught my eye. As it happens, the book itself, as well as its author, are well worth examination, even though they seem not to be as well known as they should be.
Today was the grand opening of the new Monticello Visitor Center & Smith Education Center, and we are sooooooo tired right now.
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