Book review alert

Leonard Sadosky (former ICJS fellow) does Susan Dunn’s Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia and Jon Kukla’s Mr. Jefferson’s Women in the latest issue of the Journal of the Early Republic (Winter 2008).  No online version for Foundation users (sorry!), but if you happen to be at an institution that subscribes [...]

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What would Jefferson do . . .

. . . with the news of Barack Obama’s election?  Historian (and former ICJS Fellow) Joseph J. Ellis wrote an interesting opinion piece in the L.A. Times yesterday addressing this very question:
I never expected to see an African American president in my lifetime. Like the sudden implosion of the Soviet Union, Barack Obama’s emergence was [...]

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Virginia Dissenters

Congratulations to John Ragosta, one of our former ICJS fellows, who has an article in the new Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, “Fighting for Freedom: Virginia Dissenters’ Struggle for Religious Liberty during the American Revolution” (vol. 116 no. 3). Hard copy is of course available for perusal/photocopying here at the library, but you [...]

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