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Remembering Slavery
The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America's imagination--and conscience--once again.
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\Most blessed of the patriarchs\ : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
Presents a history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race.
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Writing Early American Lives as Biography
This essay is a meditation on the role that biography can play in shaping our understanding of early American history. It grew out of a WMQ-EMSI workshop, “Early American Biographies,” convened at the Huntington Library in 2012. Workshop participants presented papers discussing lives from a broad cross section of North American society from the late seventeenth century to the early part of the nineteenth century. Gordon-Reed's essay discusses the mechanics of writing the biographies of obscure figures, gives a brief history of modern biography, and addresses criticism of biography as a form of history writing.
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Take Care of Me When Dead
\"Take care of me when dead,\" Thomas Jefferson wrote on February 17, 1826, to James Madison, his friend of over fifty years. Although he would live another five months, Jefferson likely understood that the end was near. The final two years of his life, with the exception of his old friend Lafayette's two visits to Monticello on his triumphant return to the United States in 1824, had been a parade of horribles. His physical condition, particularly in the final year before he wrote this letter to Madison, was rapidly deteriorating. He was in constant pain that required ever increasing doses of laudanum that, no doubt, affected his mood and his day-to-day functioning. His financial affairs were in ruins. The lingering effects of the Panic of 1819 and his own flawed economic decisions—including co-signing notes for a relative who defaulted on the obligations—left him reeling.
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