Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiv, 426 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 > Political and social views
2. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
3. University of Virginia > History
4. University of Virginia
5. 1800-1899
6. Education, Higher > United States > History > 19th century
7. Slavery > Virginia > History
8. HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
9. EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions
10. HISTORY > United States > 19th Century
11. Education, Higher
12. Political and social views
13. Slavery
14. United States
15. Virginia

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. College -- Revolution -- Honor -- Mountain -- Slavery -- Schools -- Buildings -- Professors -- Students -- Ends.

Call number

1. JFE 20-1704

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-418) and index.

Author

1. Taylor, Alan, 1955- author.

Title

1. Thomas Jefferson's education / Alan Taylor.

Publisher

1. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-418) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

LCCN

1. 2019014796

Other standard identifier

1. 40029519631

ISBN

1. 9780393652420 (hardcover)
2. 0393652424

Research call number

1. JFE 20-1704