Were at the rotunda at Thomas Jeffersons university of virginia. Up next, we take you to their special Collections Library to learn more about the jefferson papers. Jefferson is the founder of uva. He worked for many, many years to develop a system of education in virginia. Uva was his he said it was his last great project, which he did after he left the white house. He designed the buildings. He designed the curriculum. He served as the first rector of chair of the board of visitors he was intimately involved in details of the building. His vision was its a term that got thrown around today ofan academical vision. At the time a lot of the university basically consisted of one very big building where classes were held and there were dormitory rooms and things like that and jeffersons idea was to essentially make a village out of it, with the students living near the professors and classes being given in the professors homes and so there was all of this constant interaction of student a
Were at the rotunda at Thomas Jeffersons university of virginia. Up next, we take you to their special Collections Library to learn more about the jefferson papers. Jefferson is the founder of uva. He worked for many, many years to develop a system of education in virginia. Uva was his he said it was his last great project, which he did after he left the white house. He designed the buildings. He designed the curriculum. He served as the first rector of chair of the board of visitors he was intimately involved in details of the building. His vision was its a term that got thrown around today ofan academical vision. At the time a lot of the university basically consisted of one very big building where classes were held and there were dormitory rooms and things like that and jeffersons idea was to essentially make a village out of it, with the students living near the professors and classes being given in the professors homes and so there was all of this constant interaction of student a
Founding fathers, James Madison was the one who did the most and known the least. The thing thats frustrating, but fascinating about James Madison was he was incredibly impactful individual over our history over the world, but because he was private and because he was introverted and because of some other aspects, he was 54, 100 pounds, he had these anxiety attacks, that i chronicled in the book, he has not exerted the same Gravitational Force field on people that Thomas Jefferson or alexander hamilton, some of the more charismatic, larger than life figures have had. Thats the reason to write the book that plunged really deep into his youth and his coming of age to try and figure out, how do we know this guy and motivate him. And what motivated him to have such an impact on the country and the world. James madison was from right here where were standing here, which is Orange County, which is in the heart of virginia. Its about half an hour north of charlottesville. He grew up in this h