Directory of Jefferson, Thomas Resources

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The life, writings and achievements of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd President of the USA.

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• Architectural Works
• Organizations
• Quotations
• Speeches and Writings

Resources in This Category

• American Sphinx

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjessay1.html#1
  Article by Joseph J. Ellis entitled American Sphinx examines the contradictions of Thomas Jefferson.

• Jefferson Library

  http://www.monticello.org/library/
  Details about the 3rd President of the United States. Offers a browsing index with a large selection of categories, library collections, a Thomas Jefferson Portal and a list of related links.

• Life of Thomas Jefferson

  http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/TJ
  Online text of B.L. Rayner's biography "published just eight years after Jefferson's death, it is a fervent story, filled with the republican spirit".

• Monticello

  http://www.monticello.org/
  Jefferson's home in Charlottesville. Information about the house, plantation and grounds as well as the man himself.

• Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

  http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemingscontro/hemings_report.html
  Final report of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation's examination, published in January of 2000, available as hypertext and PDF.

• Six Historic Americans: Thomas Jefferson

  http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/chapter_2.html
  Article argues that Jefferson's writings prove he was not a Christian, but a Freethinker.

• The Election of 1800: Teaching about a Critical Moment in the History of American Constitutional Democracy

  http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED433299.pdf
  Provides full-text access to the ERIC Digest of this name which discusses the importance of the peaceful transfer of power from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson.

• Thomas Jefferson

  http://www.usa-presidents.info/jefferson.htm
  Provides a biography of American President Thomas Jefferson. Includes his portrait and a list of his Supreme Court appointments.

• Thomas Jefferson

  https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/thomasjefferson
  Short biography from the official Whitehouse site.

• Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive

  http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/
  Over 1,700 items, including some color manuscript images, texts, quotations, bibliography and other resources from the UVA.

• Thomas Jefferson Online

  http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/
  Site based on the PBS documentary by Ken Burns.

• Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist

  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96oct/obrien/obrien.htm
  In the future Jefferson will not be considered the Sage of Monticello argues Conor Cruise O'Brien in the Atlantic.

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