Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Jefferson. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Heminges Of Monticello

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From the New York Times on October 3, 2008,  "The Master and the Mistress," by Eric Foner, review of  Annette Gordon-Reed...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Thomas Jefferson's Lost Cause: and the Louisiana Purchase

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President Thomas Jefferson Brian Schoen of the Department of History at the University of Virginia reviewed Roger G. Kennedy's boo...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Benjamin Banneker's letter to Thomas Jefferson

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Mural of Benjamin Banneker and his achievements as surveyor, inventor, and astronomer (Library of Congress) Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Je...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Kosciuszko’s Will

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Kosciuszko - Champion of Human Rights Kosciuszko’s Will “I, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, being just in my departure from America, do hereby declar...

Thomas Jefferson's Broken Promise to Thaddeus Kosciuszko

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History Network News article, "Why We Should All Regret Jefferson's Broken Promise to Thaddeus Kosciuszko," by Gary B. Nash a...

Polish Son of Liberty: Thaddeus Kosciuszko

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THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO: A POLISH SON OF LIBERT Y Visitors to the battlements at Ticonderoga, the Saratoga Battlefield, and West Point soon be...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson

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SIR, I AM fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion ; a liberty which seemed to me scar...

Thomas Jefferson's response to Banneker Philadelphia , Aug. 30. 1791.

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SIR, I THANK you, sincerely, for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do, to see su...