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Thomas Jefferson

The Myth of Tom and Sally

By H.L. Dowless

In 1993 the Washington Post published an article on research being conducted by an accomplished Richmond lawyer named Robert Cooley. According to this article, among many additional details in regard to the subject, Cooley had… »

  • H.L. Dowless
  • Political Correctness
  • Sally Hemings
  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Jefferson

St. George Tucker’s Jeffersonian Constitution

By Allen Mendenhall

One could argue that there are two basic visions for America: the Hamiltonian and the Jeffersonian. The former is nationalist, calling for centralized power and an industrial, mercantilist society characterized by banking, commercialism, and a… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Allen Mendenhall
  • St. George Tucker
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution

Gunston Hall Boxwoods

By Brett Moffatt

George Mason, like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, was happiest at home, either in the fields and woods, with a good book by the hearth, or entertaining neighbors and family.  Living close to the soil,… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Brett Moffatt
  • George Mason
  • Southern Culture
  • Thomas Jefferson

Driving Through Virginia’s Historic Triangle, Part II

By Brett Moffatt

George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson trod the roads of this area as the colony of Virginia grew. George Mason, James Madison and Richard Henry Lee sat in the public houses debating political events.… »

  • Brett Moffatt
  • George Washington
  • Southern History
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Virginia
  • Williamsburg

The Place of Nathaniel Macon in Southern History

By William E. Dodd

Many who are well acquainted with Southern history are almost entirely unfamiliar with the historical character of Nathaniel Macon. He is often mentioned by the best of authors as a North Carolinian, as a Georgian,… »

  • John Randolph of Roanoke
  • Nathaniel Macon
  • Slavery
  • Southern History
  • Southern Politics
  • Tariffs
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution
  • William E. Dodd

A Jeffersonian Leader: William Branch Giles

By D.A. Anderson

But Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge is a worshipper of Hamilton, whom Giles hated, and an exponent of broad con­struction, which Giles bitterly fought.

  • D.A. Anderson
  • James Madison
  • Southern Founders
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Virginia
  • William Branch Giles

The Culture of Thomas Jefferson

By Fred Irland

To the student of the Classics the most interesting thing in the Library of Congress at Washington is the considerable remnant of the library of Thomas Jefferson. On October 6, 1820, Jefferson wrote to his… »

  • Fred Irland
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Education
  • Thomas Jefferson

Modern Monetary Theory: A Jeffersonian Critique

By John Devanny

The chattering class’ newest obsession, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has seized the policy initiative from the Democratic Party’s geriatrics by promoting a “Green New Deal.”  T’is clever branding to combine left-wing eco virtue signaling with FDR’s version… »

  • Banking
  • John Devanny
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution
  • Yankees

Peter Onuf’s Jefferson

By Kevin R.C. Gutzman

A review of Jefferson and the Virginians: Democracy, Constitutions, and Empire (LSU Press, 2018) by Peter Onuf Historian Peter S. Onuf first saw the light as a Connecticut Yankee. Powerful of intellect even in his… »

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  • Kevin Gutzman
  • Peter Onuf
  • Thomas Jefferson

Was the Louisiana Purchase Constitutional?

By Dave Benner

When the evolution of presidential power in early American history is discussed, it is sometimes alleged that the Louisiana Purchase was a particularly unconstitutional act and an example of presidential malfeasance. According to this line… »

  • Dave Benner
  • Louisana Purchase
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • United States Constitution

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