Research Catalog
Thomas Jefferson's education
- Title
- Thomas Jefferson's education / Alan Taylor.
- Author
- Taylor, Alan, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-1704 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 426 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education. By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labor of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to commercially vibrant northern states, Jefferson in 1819 proposed to build a university to educate and improve the sons of the planter elite. They, he hoped, might one day lead a revitalized Virginia free of slavery--and free of the former slaves. Jefferson's campaign to build the university was a contest for the future of a state and the larger nation. Although he prevails, Jefferson's vision of reform through education is hobbled by the actions of genteel students whose defiant sense of honor derived from owning slaves. It is the women of this hypermasculine society--particularly Jefferson's granddaughters--who redeem the best elements of his legacy"--
- Subjects
- Education, Higher
- Slavery
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- United States
- HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 > Political and social views
- History
- University of Virginia History
- University of Virginia
- EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions
- Education, Higher > United States > History > 19th century
- HISTORY > United States > 19th Century
- Political and social views
- Virginia
- 1800-1899
- Slavery > Virginia > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-418) and index.
- Contents
- College -- Revolution -- Honor -- Mountain -- Slavery -- Schools -- Buildings -- Professors -- Students -- Ends.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1704
- ISBN
- 9780393652420
- 0393652424
- LCCN
- 2019014796
- 40029519631
- OCLC
- 1084397243
- Author
- Taylor, Alan, 1955- author.
- Title
- Thomas Jefferson's education / Alan Taylor.
- Publisher
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-418) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029519631
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1704