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Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson
Outraged about “media bias”? Read a Civil War newspaper.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve heard a lot of people complaining online in recent months about media bias. Regardless of whether they’re on the political left, right, or middle, I hear from so many people convinced that the … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Newspapers
Tagged A Bohemian Brigade, Abraham Lincoln, All on Fire, Blue & Gray in Black and White, Brayton Harris, George Washington, Harold Holzer, Horace Greely, James Perry, John Adams, Lincoln, Lincoln and the Power of the Press, media bias, The Liberator, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Morris Chester, William Lloyd Garrison
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Do You Know George Wythe?
Down the street from the Governor’s Palace in Colonial Williamsburg sits a two-story brick structure. Living historians, in first-person, debate the road to the American Revolution. But, who was George Wythe?
Remembering John and Abigail (part one)
Part one of two When Abigail Adams died in late October, 1818, her husband, John, brokenhearted, said, “I wish I could lie down beside her and die, too.” Today, the two are entombed side by side, along with their son … Continue reading
Jefferson: Self-governance and “the field of knowledge”
The final part in a four-part series “The field of knowledge,” said Thomas Jefferson, “is the common prosperity of all mankind.” Jefferson’s words are inscribed in big bold letters in the entryway of Monticello’s visitor center. They’re written in architectural … Continue reading
Mercer’s Grenadier Militia
Emerging Revolutionary War and Revolutionary War Wednesday is pleased to welcome back guest historian Drew Gruber. Part 1 When we think about American militia during the Revolutionary War, the image of an untrained rifle-toting citizen turned soldier comes to … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, Personalities, Revolutionary War
Tagged 1777, 1781, American, American Revolution, Battle of Green Spring, Chesterfield Courthouse, Continental, Continental Line, Duc de Luzun, Frederich Wilhelm von Steuben, French, French alliance, French Army, French cavalry, George Washington, George Weedon, Gloucester Point, Grenadier Militia, Hugh Mercer, John Hungerford, Kings Mountain, Lord Cornwallis, Marquis de Lafayette, Nathanael Greene, North Carolina, Revolutionary War, Robert Anderson, The Patriot, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Nelson, Virginia, Virginia militia, Ware Church, Yorktown
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Mr. Jefferson’s library: “a necessity of life”
Part three in a four-part series “I cannot live without books,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in June of 1815. The former president had just packed his personal library—some 6,700 volumes—into a wagon train and shipped it north to … Continue reading
Posted in Revolutionary War
Tagged Jefferson's library, Jefferson-Series, Monticello, Rev War, Thomas Jefferson
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Jefferson: The Man Who Moved Mountains
The second in a four-part series He leveled the top of the mountain with gunpowder. He began the project in 1768, when he was twenty-five. He had his slaves literally sheer off the tip of the mountaintop, peeling away soil … Continue reading
James Monroe at War
Part Two With an excess of officers in the Continental Army and little prospect of getting a field command, James Monroe resigned his commission in 1779. He became a Lieutenant-Colonel of Virginia forces, but was unable to recruit enough … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Revolutionary War
Tagged baltimore, Battle of Bladensburg, Benedict, British Invasion 1814, Fort McHenry, Independence Day, James Madison, James Monroe, James Monroe Museum, Maryland, Monroe Doctrine, President James Monroe, Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War Wednesdays, Scott Harris, Society of Cincinnati, Thomas Jefferson, Treaty of Ghent, War of 1812, Washington D.C.
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Jefferson: America’s Great Contradiction
The first in a four-part series I sit on a small wooden bench, little more than a plank with legs, really, beneath a tulip poplar whose wide branches umbrella me. The grass around the bench has been worn away by … Continue reading
Posted in Revolutionary War
Tagged Founders, Jefferson, Jefferson-Series, John Adams, Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson
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The Fourth of July and the Death of Independence
Just before the Fourth of July last year, I happened to work at the Jackson Shrine. Here’s a piece I wrote in response to that experience, originally published last year at another blog I write for, Scholars & Rogues. The … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Memory, National Park Service, Slavery
Tagged Alexander Stephens, Confederate Cause and Conduct, Corner Stone Speech, George L. Christian, Hunter Holmes McGuire, Jackson Shrine, Memory, National Park Service, slavery, Slavery: Cause and Catalyst of the Civil War, Thomas Jefferson
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