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Jefferson
May 10, 2014
Steven Hahn
The Emancipationist Century
David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait
April 26, 2014
Abbas Milani
Thomas Jefferson Was a Muslim
A candidate was accused of being a closet Muslim. In the 18th century, not the 21st.
May 4, 2012
David Greenberg
The Romance of Realism
December 7, 2011
Timothy Noah
The GOP vs. TR
May 19, 2011
Mark A. Noll
Jesus and Jefferson
March 10, 1997
Sean Wilentz
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
How a slaveholder and ideologue was also a great democrat.
March 18, 1996
Jeffrey Rosen
Just a Quirk
April 24, 1995
Sean Wilentz
The Air Around Tom Paine
January 30, 1995
Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Brothers
April 30, 1924
Edmund Wilson
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