Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's Crib 18th Century Palace of Gadget Geekery

Source: All About Jazz
July 14, 2009

Thomas Jefferson loved new technology and modding his surroundings to his lifestyle. From food to comfort to efficiency, he was always looking for ways to improve his living space with inventions and hacks. If he were alive today, we like to think hed be reading Wired.

Jefferson thought of his house, Monticello, as a machine for living. As such, it contains many insights into how a DIY gear-nut of today might have fared in the 18th Century.

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Thomas Jefferson's Music Instruments

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2009

Very Interesting Quote by the author of the Declaration of Independance, Thomas Jefferson, in light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Jefferson said in 1802:

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of ...
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Thomas Jefferson His Slave Mistress and the Antebellum South

Source: Michael Ricci
November 14, 2008

The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed A look at the third president, his slave mistress and the antebellum South.

Thomas Jefferson is an American icon. Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, minister to France, our first secretary of State, vice president and ultimately the third president. But it has become de rigueur to point to a necessary asterisk: that Jefferson, like all Southern aristocrats, was a slaveholder.

Irony abounds in history. ...
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Jefferson's Wee Little Book

Source: Michael Ricci
July 5, 2008

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Jefferson Bible reveals Founding Father's view of God, Faith

SCHOLAR: Robert C. Ritchie says many people would consider it desecration to take a scissors to the Bible. “Yet, it gives a reading into Jefferson's take on the Bible, which was not as divine word put into print, but as a book that can be cut up," he says. Nation's third president compiled the four Gospels into a single text without ...
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