Thomas Jefferson’s America from WGN Plus

Thomas Jefferson’s America from WGN Plus

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Thomas Jefferson’s America from WGN Plus

John Williams looks to one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, to find out how he coped with political polarization. They also discussed his pride, The University of Virginia. Clay Jenkinson is a public humanities scholar, the author of ten books, and one of the leading Jefferson scholars in the United States. He is the author of Becoming Jefferson’s People: Re-Inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-First Century. You can learn more about his work at http://www.jeffersonhour.com. He lives on […]

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