by Tom Chaffin The fifth and final excerpt from Revolutionary Brothers takes place in Paris in 1789, as Thomas Jefferson witnesses the civil unrest marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
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Revolutionary Brothers: “Aux Armes!”
Tagged with: French Revolution, Revolutionary Brothers, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Chaffin
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
Revolutionary Brothers: “Flattered by the Command”
by Tom Chaffin In the first of five excerpts from Revolutionary Brothers, Tom Chaffin chronicles Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette as they plan a Virginia campaign in 1781.
Tagged with: Marquis de Lafayette, Revolutionary Brothers, Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson, Tom Chaffin
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
by Tom Chaffin In the first of five excerpts from Revolutionary Brothers, Tom Chaffin chronicles Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette as they plan a Virginia campaign in 1781.
Posted in Early Modern History, Military History
Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s influence on American political history outstrips that of any other figure. Only Franklin Roosevelt rivaled President Jefferson’s dominance of the federal government, and Jefferson was more than the supreme politician of the revolutionary…
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Posted in Modern History
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s influence on American political history outstrips that of any other figure. Only Franklin Roosevelt rivaled President Jefferson’s dominance of the federal government, and Jefferson was more than the supreme politician of the revolutionary…
Posted in Modern History
Jeffersonian Federalism and the Origins of State Rights
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s name is most commonly associated in American popular culture with what we now call “democracy,” which Jefferson’s friend and collaborator James Madison called “republicanism”: government by elected officials. Abundant evidence supports that Jefferson…
Tagged with: Federalism, jefferson, Political History, republican, Thomas Jefferson, US Political History
Posted in Modern History
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Thomas Jefferson’s name is most commonly associated in American popular culture with what we now call “democracy,” which Jefferson’s friend and collaborator James Madison called “republicanism”: government by elected officials. Abundant evidence supports that Jefferson…
Posted in Modern History
Ho Chi Minh and Thomas Jefferson
By Susan Dunn In September 1945, hundreds of thousands of people jammed the French-looking boulevards and streets of downtown Hanoi. They had traveled in oppressive heat from distant villages for the great day. Schools and offices were closed. Jubilant peasants…
By Susan Dunn In September 1945, hundreds of thousands of people jammed the French-looking boulevards and streets of downtown Hanoi. They had traveled in oppressive heat from distant villages for the great day. Schools and offices were closed. Jubilant peasants…
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