Thomas Jefferson: the scholarly politician and his influence on medicineAn abstract is unavailable. This article is available as a PDF only.Spratt, J.S., JrSouthern Medical Journal
The Eye of Thomas Jefferson. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1976a. One of two foundational volumes that would create a new scholarly standard for scholarship on Jefferson and the arts. This served as the catalogue for an enormous bicentennial exhibition at the National Gallery of ...
Richard K. Matthews has put the point even more forcefully, claiming that public education was an essential precondition of Jefferson's "faith in the people" and their ability "to govern themselves." Perhaps Merrill D. Peterson expressed the scholarly consensus most succinctly: public education was...
if the tests showed a match to the Jefferson Y chromosome, that would not seal the case on Thomas Jefferson, but it would surely make it a little stronger. But none of these assassins of Thomas Jefferson’s reputation want to take that risk. They would rather hold on to the...
Jeferson's Wall: Two Hundred Years Ago, on January 1, 1802, President Thomas Jefferson Penned a Letter Destined to Be Ranked with the Declaration of Independence, James Madison's 1785 Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and George...
"A Model of Scholarly Craftsmanship: Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and Francis Walker Gilmer (1814—1826)." The Journal of Higher Education, 18(1), p. 50doi:10.2307/1975533Wittke, CarlDavis, Richard BealeJournal of Higher EducationDavis, R. B. (Editor) Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson ...
Things Jefferson Might Have Improved Upon There are a few items Jefferson used and very well may have altered to meet his needs, but there’s no definitive proof that he did so: The swivel chair.We know that Jefferson used a swivel chair, and there’s reason to believe he might have in...
Nancy McKeon
Long regarded as America’s most distinguished “apostle of liberty,” Jefferson has come under increasingly critical scrutiny within the scholarly world. At the popular level, both in the United States and abroad, he remains an incandescent icon, an inspirational symbol for both major U.S. polit...
In 1998, however, DNA samples were gathered from living descendants of Jefferson and Hemings, and the subsequent tests revealed that Jefferson was almost certainly the father of some of Hemings’s children; Carr was ruled out. Although the scholarly consensus became that Jefferson and Hemings were...