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Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy
by Mark Pulliam|
Thomas Jefferson’s Legacy
Washington, DC - Jefferson MemorialJohn C. Calhoun, Madisonian Manqué
The Constitution: A Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery Document?
The U.S. Constitution (Derek Hatfield / Shutterstock.com)New Birth of Freedom Betrayed
Prisoners from the Front, Winslow Homer, 1866 (metmuseum.org)Three Fifths of All Other Persons
Newspaper engraving from 1864 (NYPL digital collections)J.Q. Adams, Diarist
Making Jefferson Safe for the Historians
Washington, DC - Jefferson MemorialRice University’s John Boles was for many years (1983-2013) editor of The Journal of Southern History, which after The Journal of American History is the most-cited scholarly journal in the field of American history. In that position, he had substantial influence on, besides being substantially influenced by, the shape of the field today. Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty comes as a kind of valedictory. As in his earlier work, Boles is self-consciously guided in writing it by recent developments in academic historiography. Contemporary politics make themselves felt in his story of the Master of Monticello, too. A full one-volume account has long…
The Radical Jefferson: A Conversation with Kevin Gutzman
Liberate the Captives
The Birth of a Nation has been called a classic revenge movie—Braveheart set in antebellum America—and it’s a largely accurate assessment. This is a biopic of Nat Turner, a slave who led a rebellion in 1831 of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, that resulted in the deaths of some 55 to 65 white people. In retaliation, white militias and mobs killed more than 200 black people before hanging Turner.
Something crucial has been left out of that assessment, though.
Law and Tradition in America: Marc DeGirolami Replies
I am grateful for the learned responses of Professors Bernstein, Levinson, and Stoner to my Liberty Forum essay on law and tradition. Of course, it will not be possible to reply to each point. But it may be simplest to consider the arguments of Professors Bernstein and Stoner together, before more particularly addressing Professor Levinson’s. Bernstein and Stoner are positively inclined toward investigating the connection of tradition and American law, though in different degrees. Professor Bernstein argues that though the common law does depend upon custom and tradition, it has been colonized in more recent decades by intellectual movements that are…
