Financial crises are nothing new in American history. The Panic of 1819 was the first of them, and it was one about which Jefferson had strong feelings. For several years, he had been watching the unregulated banking system of the time careen wildly out of control and predicted that sooner or later there would be a crash that would drag down both the guilty and the innocent. He was right about that, of course, but being right did not memore »
I was amused to see in the NY Times article on UVA's excitement earlier this year ("Anatomy of a Campus Coup," Sept. 11, 2012) that Rector Dragas quotes Jefferson as having said "in matters of style," etc. What must Mr. Jefferson be thinking?more »
"studying all the published papers of Jefferson's Presidency (some 40,000 letters"--there were 40,000 published letters from the presidency available to Marie Kimball during her lifetime? This will be news to the editors of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.more »
Rumor has it the United States had no ambassadors in the days covered by Jean Bauer's excellent data base--just ministers. The point has some importance since it reflects the fact that the US had yet to be reocgnized as one of the powers, and in that age only the top dogs got to have...more »
I was amused to see in the NY Times article on UVA's excitement earlier this year ("Anatomy of a Campus Coup," Sept. 11, 2012) that Rector Dragas quotes Jefferson as having said "in matters of style," etc. What must Mr. Jefferson be thinking?more »
"studying all the published papers of Jefferson's Presidency (some 40,000 letters"--there were 40,000 published letters from the presidency available to Marie Kimball during her lifetime? This will be news to the editors of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson.more »
Rumor has it the United States had no ambassadors in the days covered by Jean Bauer's excellent data base--just ministers. The point has some importance since it reflects the fact that the US had yet to be reocgnized as one of the powers, and in that age only the top dogs got to have...more »