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Carl R. Trueman (born March 18, 1967) is an English Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He was Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary , where he held the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History.
In 1938, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Stuart Gibboney, contacted The Garden Club of Virginia about Monticello. He asked the club to help restore the gardens and its members agreed. When preparing to repair the gardens, members of the Garden Club of Virginia discovered that Jefferson's garden book had been left behind. [32]
Dictionary of American Biography, Vol V, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York e'Book; Mapp, Alf (1987). Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, Madison Books, 487 pages; ISBN 9780819157829 Book —— (2009). Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim, Rowman & Littlefield, 445 pages; ISBN 978-0-7425-6440-4; Book
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery. New York: Viking Press, 1986. Goetzmann, William H. "Exploration's Nation: The Role of Discovery in American History," in American Civilization, ed. Daniel J. Boorstin. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972. Mann, Charles C. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
In the 1930s, Jefferson was held in higher esteem; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945) and New Deal Democrats celebrated his struggles for "the common man" and reclaimed him as their party's founder. Jefferson became a symbol of American democracy in the incipient Cold War, and the 1940s and 1950s saw the zenith of his popular reputation.
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is a multi-volume scholarly edition devoted to the publication of the public and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. [1] The project, established at Princeton University , is the definitive edition of documents written by or to Jefferson.