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By Editor February 03, 2025

A Lecture by Patrick Spero

Join us for a talk by Patrick Spero, director of the American Philosophical Society and prize-winning author, on Thursday, February 27, at 5:00 pm at the Hennage Auditorium in Colonial Williamsburg. The Hennage Auditorium is part of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg located at 301 S. Nassau Street, Williamsburg, Virginia. The lecture is FREE and open to all. Read More

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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 Edith B. Gelles July 03, 2018

Abigail and Tom

Today’s post accompanies “Partisans: The Friendship and Rivalry of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson” episode 193 of Ben Franklin’s World. by Edith B. Gelles Abigail Adams adored Thomas Jefferson. “He is one of the choice ones of the earth,” she wrote to her sister after meeting him in 1784. Thomas Jefferson, in return,… Read More

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By Eliga Gould July 04, 2017

When Did America Really Become Independent?

Eliga Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and the author most recently of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire. When I teach the American Revolution, I often ask my students, when did the United States become independent? The conventional… Read More

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