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By Gordon M. Sayre March 17, 2021

TJ takes on Buffon

By Gordon M. Sayre, author of “Jefferson Takes on Buffon: The Polemic on American Animals in Notes on the State of Virginia” in the January 2021 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia has intrigued me for my entire career. In my dissertation research I read… Read More

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By Lindsay M. Keiter May 09, 2019

Making the Personal Historical: Reflections on Pregnancy and Birth

“A Lady & Children,” mezzotint (1780), British Museum. This post accompanies “Motherhood in Early America,” episode 237 of Ben Franklin’s World. It was originally posted at the Junto and has been lightly revised. Human reproduction is simultaneously unchanged and radically different over time and across cultures. This paradox has preoccupied… Read More

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