Jefferson

Calendar for this Unit

 

Lecture Materials for the Jefferson Unit

Texts

Biography/General Resources

Quotes

Architecture

Hemings

Political Theory:Locke/Hobbes

The works of Thomas Jefferson
E-texts of the works of Thomas Jefferson.

 

The Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive

Works and Resources. U. of Virginia

 

The complete works of Jefferson

Constitution.org

 

Declaration of Indepence, Constitution ,Federalist papers

Texts at US Congress site

 

The Letters of Thomas Jefferson

From Revolution to Reconstruction site. Great resource.

 

The Thomas Jefferson Papers  and

Thomas Jefferson Exhibit
at The Library of Congress

 

The Jefferson Bible

Jefferson’s editing of the New Testament to the core of its moral teachings

Clay Jenkinson's Jefferson Page
The homepage of Clay Jenkinson, Jefferson scholar and presenter of a one-man Jefferson show in St. Anselm Humanities Program's Jefferson Unit.

Ken Burns’ Thomas Jefferson

PBS site on the documentary series

 

The Thomas Jefferson Papers  and

Thomas Jefferson Exhibit
at The Library of Congress

 

Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
Homepage of Monticello. Has info. on architecture, and the daily life of Jefferson. A very interesting site.

 

Thomas Jefferson A Character Sketch
Edward S. Ellis

 

Jefferson and his Colleagues, A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty

 Alan Johnson

 

History of United States Part I

Edwin Sparks

Ask Thomas Jefferson
A collection of quotes from Thomas Jefferson on a variety of topics.

 

Jefferson Quotes

U. of Virginia site with table of contents of quotes on different topics

 

 Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson
Homepage of Monticello. Has info. on architecture, and the daily life of Jefferson. A very interesting site.

 

The archictecture of Thomas Jefferson
U. of Virginia Site

 

Material on the new evidence regarding Jefferson and Heming's descendents.

John Locke
U. of Oregon page has biography, links, and works.

The Second Treatise of Civil Government
 Locke’s main political work, contains his view of the social contract

Thomas Hobbes Humanities Page
Page for the former Hobbes unit: texts and resources.

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