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A new portrait of the founding father challenges the long-held perception of Thomas Jefferson as a benevolent slaveholder

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“The Character of Thomas Jefferson”

As inscrutable as he was influential, Thomas Jefferson casts a mighty shadow on American history. In this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis explores Jefferson’s political ideology — his preference for an agrarian nation and a weak national government, his feelings about democracy, his insistence on the separation of church and state, and belief in individual rights — and suggests that as the United States emerges from the twentieth century, it may be moving toward a more Jeffersonian ideal of limited government and the primacy of the individual.  This podcast is courtesty of The Gilder Lehrman Institute. 

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Interpreting Thomas Jefferson is almost an around-the-clock commitment.

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Mr. Jefferson’s Women

Growing up in a home surrounded by his mother and six sisters, young Thomas Jefferson learned that homemaking was the sole realm for women. According to historian Jon Kukla, however, Jefferson’s vision of women changed little as he matured. Kukla joins the National Constitution Center for a timely examination of Jefferson’s attitudes toward women in his life as well as their place in American politics and society.

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Hercules and Hemings: Presidents’ Slave Chefs

Some kitchen stories are complicated — full of mystery and missing pieces — the truth hidden by time. No photographs to capture them, little historical record to go on. “Hercules and Hemings” is one of these stories. In this piece, Hidden Kitchens turns its focus to the president’s kitchen and to some of the first cooks to feed the Founding Fathers — the enslaved chefs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.  Listen to this podcast courtesy of NPR. 

Presumed portrait of Hercules, George Washington’s enslaved cook, by Gilbert Stuart.

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Jefferson’s Library Once Again Complete

The Library of Congress has managed to re-create —with the help of rare-book collectors —-the missing two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson’s Library. Mark Dimunation, of the Library of Congress, discusses Jefferson’s tastes and rare-book detectives.  Listen to this podcast courtesy of NPR. 

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