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• Jefferson's Virginia.(Going Places)

  - 2003-10-05

  Byline: Kathy Rodeghier Daily Herald Travel Editor CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -Thomas Jefferson was a visionary, but even he might be surprised by how his world has changed in the last 200 years. Strangers troop through his bedroom at Monticello and peek into the ...

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• Three Virginia Universities Look to Cut Some Ties with State.

  - 2003-01-04

  By Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 4--As they struggle with historic cuts in state financial support, three Virginia universities are seeking ways to cut some of the ties that bind them to the state government. ...

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• Thomas Jefferson and historical self-construction: the earth belongs to the living?

  - 1999-01-01

  Thomas Jefferson in his letters to James Madison wrote the living generation of people should have control over the laws that govern them, and an inherited rule of law was an infringement on the rights of the living. However, in his private life he tried to ensure that his political...

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• Thomas Jefferson: pragmatist or visionary?

  - 1993-04-01

  How should we view Thomas Jefferson in this, the 250th anniversary of his birth? Colin Bonwick offers his assessment of the man as America's third president, party leader and Enlightenment enthusiast. Thomas Jefferson believed he knew the value of his own...

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