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• The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.(Book review)

  - 2005-12-22

  The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. By Edmund S. Morgan. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 91. $19.95.) Since its original publication nearly thirty years ago, Edmund S. Morgan's The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George ...

  Tags: democracy, Government, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia, Washington

• US doctors helped treat Ukraine's Yushchenko for dioxin poisoning

  - 2005-03-11

  WASHINGTON AFP — US doctors traveled to Vienna in December to help treat Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko for dioxin poisoning, officials said, while denying there was any political motivation. US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Yushchenko was seen by doctors from the University of Virginia. "We...

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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...

  Tags: America, CAREER, FINANCE, Government, liberty, president, Republic, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia, Virginia, Washington

• Christmas sixty years ago: an American odyssey

  - 1998-12-01

  After graduating at Durham and acquiring a teaching diploma in 1938, I then won a Commonwealth Fellowship, to study in the US. Commonwealth Fund Fellows were 24 in number and appointed annually, with a requirement that they should spend their first summer vacation on an extensive tour; books and scholarship...

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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...

  Tags: CAREER, Declaration, Government, leader, Leadership, liberty, president, SOFTWARE, University of Virginia, Virginia, Washington