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M. Andrew Holowchak

Is the Public Getting a Skewed Idea of Thomas Jefferson?

By M. Andrew Holowchak

This article was originally published by History News Network. In a recent article on Thomas Jefferson’s mythic and contradictory legacy for Time, Joseph Ellis begins with an account of an encounter during a book tour… »

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Was Jefferson a “Scientific Racist”?

By M. Andrew Holowchak

Originally published by the History News Network, 11 November 2014. “In one of my seminar discussions,” writes UVA professor Peter Onuf (now emeritus) in The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, “one young woman described suddenly feeling… »

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Searching for Jefferson and Finding Ourselves

By M. Andrew Holowchak

Why Historians Cannot Readily Situate Jefferson Finding Jefferson’s Shadow In his watershed work The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1961), Merrill D. Peterson argues that our task as Jeffersonian historians is in some sense… »

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“Monster of Self-Deception” or “Sentimental Traveller”?

By M. Andrew Holowchak

A Critique of Onufian Revisionism and Jefferson’s “Contradictions” Robert Booth Fowler writes: “The monuments to Stalin that have come down in recent years in Eastern Europe mark the fall of a former hero and the… »

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An Easy Moral Superiority over Our Dead Heroes

By M. Andrew Holowchak

This article was originally published by the History News Network and is reprinted here by permission. Henry Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain (2012), which depicted Jefferson as a greedy and racist slave-owner, sold well but… »

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