On TJ…

The first selection, published in the 4th of July 2004 edition of Time Magazine, is by novelist and essayist, Walter Kirn. The second selection, published in the same edition of Time, is by the Pulitzer Prize winning Brown university history professor Gordon Wood.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of TJ

Where are the Jeffersons of Today

After you’ve read the selections, please respond to these questions:

Questions on Kirn and Wood

If you, share my fascination with TJ, here are other contributions to that same July 2004 issue of Time…

The Shady Side of TJ

Was the Sage a Hypocrite?

TJ and Hamilton: The Best of Enemies

Order v. Liberty: Reading and My Lecture

“You may think that the Constitution is your security it is nothing but a piece of paper. You may think that the statutes are your security but they are nothing but words in a book. You may think that elaborate mechanism of government is your security but it is nothing at all, unless you have sound and uncorrupted public opinion to give life to your Constitution, to give vitality to your statutes, to make efficient your government machinery.”

-Charles Evan Hughes, Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court, 1930-1941

Dr. Larry Gragg’s Article

Order v. Liberty Responses

Contemporary Connection…

My Lecture: Order v Liberty – An Enduring Theme in U.S. History

Time Magazine calls Alien & Sedition Acts the Patriot Act of the 18th Century