Believe in the divinity of christ and he didnt believe in miracles. He didnt believe in the trinity. However, im not talking about personal beliefs. Im talking about my understanding of what christianity is for my training of the way i was raised. Also dismissive of jefferson. I was about to say that arguing with peter other unitarian tradition, a unitarian tradition and convinced me that i was being prejudice, that i was being too dogmatic. Confessional moment. Tha yes, Something Like that. That i was not taken jefferson religion, his statement that he was a christian seriously. If you think about it, there have certainly been they were people talk about what gospels with darwin, what gospels would come out. So its not like there was some received tradition that came down unchallenged through the ages. I backed up away from that and i became convinced that he cant call himself a christian, but he was insincere. One of the things he says if he wanted to hear the voice of jesus as a gre
On American History tv. We hear about the five years during which Thomas Jefferson served in paris as the minister of the United States to france. Author James Thompson describes period as a transformative time for jefferson. Is the author n of Thomas Jefferson enlightenment. Thomas jefferson traveled to france and lived there for five years. During this time, he made a a mber of excursions with philosoph and influential of french society. To us s speaker will talk about this transformative. In Thomas Jeffersons life. James thompson studied philosophy as an undergraduate and graduate student at the risd virginia. Grad student, hugh lived on a farm of Thomas Jeffersons oldest daughter. Four years there, he began what has been an Ongoing Investigation into the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Thompson developed an of erest in the history ideas teaching courses on philosophy, religion, and ethics. Of several books, veil of g, beyond the wrote that while virginian birth of aristocracy a
Environment. This is just under an hour. It is all downhill from there. My lawyer will take any complaints later. Thank you so much and thank you for what you all do here. I have shopped here as a young Washington Monthly editor, shopped is too strong. We didnt have any money but you all may remember Washington Monthly editors were paid 10,000 a year which kate whoohoo won the National Book award last night and adding to her amazing list of accomplishments, she used to say she actually graduated from the monthly when she could buy on tra appetizers in restaurants. I am a southerner, i am from tennessee, and i think understanding jefferson in his regional context and National Context and political context is important. He was a master of politics, whether it was ideologically driven or geographically driven. There is something president about a ferociously divided atmosphere, big issues at stake, and a president whose tall, cool, sir regrow, pretty good at politics but doesnt like to ad
war perspectives. please take your seats and welcome. my name is joseph glatthaar. i am the distinguished professor at the university of north carolina chapel hill and this is the panel called civil war perspectives. today we have two outstanding folks. the first, the new york times the new york times complete civil war 1861-1865 compiled and edited by craig symonds and harold holzer. and we have andrew johnson, a presidential biography by annette gordon-reed. one would think initial these books don t have that much in common but in fact as i read through them it became apparent to me they had an enormous amount in common. andrew johnson was a southern unionists and the war was over the union. furthermore there are huge constitutional issues. huge raise issues in both books so they dovetail nicely. let me introduce our authors and the authors will speak and then we will have a question and answer session. hopefully there will be lots of times for questions and answers
presidential biography by annette gordon-reed. one would think as i read through them, itmu became apparent to me that they had an enormous amount innt common. andrew johnson, of course, was a southern unionist, and the war was over the union. furthermore, there are huge constitutional issues, huge race issues in both books, and sormor they do have tail nicely.ge r dovetail nicely. let me introduce our authors, and the authors will speak, and we ll have a question and answer session. we will have a question and answer session. hopefully there will be lots of times for questions and answers and i expect you to participate. when we begin i remind you this is not a moment for you to give speeches, it is time for you to ask questions and for the authors to answer. first, harold holzer has written or edited several dozen books. he is by my standards perhaps the best authority on abraham lincoln in the world. i recently had the opportunity to use one of his books in my undergradu