we used archaeology to understand thomas jefferson's landscape,derstand the houses he designed. we are also using it as the lives of enslaved people. when jefferson received the plantation, it was already a working plantation. it was large in size, but there is only a handful of enslaved people living and working here. overtime, jefferson started to increase the labor force by moving other slaves on the property, engaging them with growing tobacco and wheat. almost 100 enslaved people working here. some of the artifacts we recovered from the places they lived tell us about their lives and professions. and activities they were engaged in. a couple of the tools that were wereered from a site enslaved people were living between 1790 and 1812 includes a cruise iron, part of a tool used to make barrels. it cuts the groove into the top of barrels. used by ave an anvil blacksmith to bend metal and put groups in metal. also, the hinge of a carpenter's ruler. a carpenter living nearby. other aspects of the enslaved individuals, we can look through some of the other objects. is a silveravo

thomas jefferson had three daughters. mark there and maria by his wife and harriet, by his slave, sally hemings. in "jefferson's daughters" i recount the journey of these very different women and how they had a struggle to define themselves with the possibilities and limitations of the american revolution. although all three women share the same father, the commonalities and -- martha and maria lived in paris. at that time, paris was a hothouse of intellectual sermons they celebrated the young martha met him even socialize with. once they return home however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs in the newly independent republic that their father had helped to establish. 12 years after their return from france, their half-sister, harriet hemings was born. and her life would follow a different path. she will corrupt and slippery. but leave monticello at age 21 with the assistance of jefferson himself. and begin a new life free from bondage. she had a question for philadelphia with $50 in her pocke

into is the one thomas jefferson stayed in just weeks before george mason passed away. george mason had nine children. most of his nine children ended up in politics or government, in some way involved in the new country. they were not as prolific as george mason. they were not as well-known known. but they were still involved. they thought they were supposed to be engaged the same way george mason himself did. unfortunately, his oldest son after oury shortly own george mason's death in 1796. so, our george mason dies in 1792. his oldest son dies in 1796. the property falls to his grandson, who was not very old at that point. he ends up not living at the house and it falls into other hands. it goes to the nephew by marriage, george mason graham, son of george graham, sarah's nephew. that being said, many sons and theirons used grandfather's legacy in positive and negative ways. one of george mason's grandsons followed his grandfathers footsteps into politics and helped author the fugitive slave act. if you are familiar with the film 12 years a slave, that's the law that

thomas jefferson had a three daughters martha and mariah by his wife, and herriot by his slave sally hemmings. so jeffersons daughters i recount the journey of these three very different women and how their struggle to define themselves reflect both the possibilities and the limitations of the american revolution. although all three share the same father, the commonalities are there. he received a fine comments will education where they lived in paris during their father's diplomatic posting and at that time, paris is a hothouse of intellectual and celebrated the young martha jefferson met and even socialize with. once they return home however they found their options limited into nearly independent republic but their father himself hoped to establish. 12 years after their return from france with her half-sister was born and her life would follow a very different path. she would grow up into slavery and leave monticello at age 21 with the assistance of jefferson himself and begin a new life free from bondage. she $50 i had $50 in her pockety jefferson himself had provided and for deci

the first draft ends up in a newspaper in philadelphia around the time thomas jefferson is drafting the declaration of independence. we don't know, but we think it is possible this might have had some influence on thomas jefferson's writing of the declaration. mason gets invited to philadelphia for the constitutional convention. it's the furthest he has been from home. he is not happy about it. he is concerned about leaving the kids that are still at home with his second wife. he has remarried after the death of his first wife. not too excited about it. gets to philadelphia, ends up being one of the top five speakers of the constitutional convention. he is very adamant about many things. in early september, late august, he stands up at the constitutional convention and says wait, this document does not have a declaration of rights. it goes to a vote and it is unanimously down voted. george mason at that time does not see a bill of rights added to the constitution. he is pretty unhappy about that. there are some reasons why they didn't do it at the time. the 55 men at the constitutional

thomas jefferson has three daughters martha more than mariah by his wife martha wells jefferson and harriet by sally hemings. in "jefferson's daughters" i recount the journeys of these three very different women and how their struggle to define themselves reflect both the possibility and the limitations of the american revolution. as the women shared the same author at commonalities and fair fair. more than mariah received a fine education during their fathers diplomatic post and at that time paris was a hot house of intellectual -- who celebrated. a young martha jefferson met and socialize with. the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs in the newly independent covenant that their father himself had helped to establish. 12 years after their return from france their half-sister harriet hemings was worn and her life would follow a very different path. she would grow up in slavery but leave monticello at age 21 with the assistance of jefferson himself and began a new life free from bondage. she boarded a -- bound for philadelphia with $50 in her pocket and four decidedly

kennedy george washington and thomas jefferson despite the fact that donald trump is the first modern president to not publicly release his taxes he is clearly the wealthiest u.s. president ever he inherited a large sum from his father and invested much of it in real estate resorts and casinos his total net worth is estimated to be three point one billion dollars and like donald trump j.f.k.'s wealth has a cause in that he died before he received his large inheritance from his father had he received the inheritance along with a wealth of his wife jacqueline it's estimated that j.f.k. had would have had a net worth of one billion dollars and coming in third is the birthday boy george washington who earned one of the largest u.s. salaries in fact he owned more than fifty thousand acres of land bringing his well . to roughly five hundred twenty five million dollars and the fourth wealthiest president is one of the key authors of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states thomas jefferson who made most of his money through inheritance from his father in w

more onu please expound thomas jefferson's religious views? >> thomas jefferson's religious views? >> yes. >> well, i didn't mention thomas jefferson. [laughter] >> i might jump in. jump in.y be able to my basic understanding of thomas jefferson is that he was a little more purely deistic in what he had to say. he famously trimmed the bible of certain texts that were miraculous because he mainly wanted to concentrate on the morals of jesus and see jesus as this example of morality, which was a key thing for him. i don't knowat, much else about jefferson's religious views. >> i sometimes use the term, he was an adherent to the natural religion where he saw human reason is the final arbiter at the end of the day, when -- which gave him pause when he encountered the transcendent claims, the miraculous claims he encountered in the bible. if he couldn't explain it or understand it with reason than he had to question, or had reason to doubt it. having said that, he thought jesus of nazareth was the greatest moral teacher there ever was and there was great value in studying that. the kind

to look at the thoughts and ideas that were important to one of the founders of our country, thomas jefferson. writing table in the museum that reflects and symbolizes his role in creating the declaration of independence. there are three things that jefferson wanted to be remembered for. second was to be an author of the declaration of independence. third was to be an author of the freedom of religion clause in the virginia state constitution. to be remembered as the third president of the united states, which i think was significant. it's those acts he wanted to have inscribed on his tombstone at the monticello. this document further reinforces the ideas and thinking behind his commitment to religious thought. i'm going to ask. rubinstein to elaborate on what would have been the history of jefferson's bible. give you an to introduction as to what is the jefferson bible, which is going to be brief because a lot has been written about it and a lot more will be written about it. jefferson and you don't really think of as an individual who spends a lot of time thinking about religion or moral be

could you please expound more on thomas jefferson's religious views? >> thomas jefferson? >> yes. >> i didn't mention thomas jefferson. but you might be able to jump in. yeah, my basic understanding of thomas jefferson is that he was only more purely deistic in what he had to say. he famously trimmed the bible of certain texts because they were miraculous because he wanted to focus on life and morals of this jesus and see morality which was the key theme for him. and other than that, you know, i don't know much else about his religious views. >> i sometimes use he was adherent of national religion, where he saw human reason as the final arbiter at the end of the day which gave him cause when he encountered the claims he read in the bible. if he couldn't understand it or explain it through reason, then he had questions, reason to doubt it. having said that, he thought jesus of nazareth was the greatest moral teacher there ever was. and there was great value in studying that. the kind of religion that he would have warmed to would have been nondogmatic. it would have been no

such boldness did not endear him to the friends of revolutionary france, among them thomas jefferson. using state department funds, jefferson poet phillip forknow to make military war on which the government which he reportedly worked as a diplomatic translator. in the pages of the newspaper, he assailed washington for the allegedly royalist trappings of the presidential household, quote, a certain monarchial prettiness must be highly extolled. such as levies, drawing rooms and stately nods instead of shaking hands, titles of office, is he inclusion from the people. washington canceled his subscription to furnell's paper. not to be put off so easily, the offending journalists ordered three copies personally delivered to the executive mansion. hoping to defuse a war scale with england, washington on his own initiative sent john j. to london to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the british government. when the treaty evoked popular outrage, it was washington who shouldered the blame. at one point the house of representatives demanded he turn over all papers relating to the treaty and

believe it or not -- thomas jefferson. he's a quiz for you. no is this person in the painting here with him anybody know? anybody -- no. that's a gentleman by nail of mary weather lewis of louis and clark fame. when jefferson who was widower died 1972, e he came to the white house and he needed an assistant a trustworthy assistant he knew the lewis family i think from his piedmont region down near shaar is lotsville he wrote to lewis at the time an a officer and would you line to work with me in the white house and he was -- so here we are, and lewis actually and jefferson were so close that lewis actually lived in the white house he lived tben in what is ted's east room. had a couple of room on the south side. and they kind of partition rooms off and sort of a -- sailing cloth from a sailing ship. sort of thing. so one of the rooms was his bed chamber other one was his offices. so all day long here's jefferson working down the hall and here's lewis and all day long he would walk down the -- what hall of plotting screaming running concern and e

thomas jefferson enhances dumbwaiter built into the fireplace in the dining room. you have little literal dumbwaiter tables being put up in place of someone who's not going to be able to communicate. you are responding to ideas on slavery and furniture and passageways allow flexibility to high enslaved bodies are present inside bodies depending on who is coming to visit your plantation that day. it's not as if someone from friends that this somehow thomas thomas jefferson didn't own the enslaved people, but the fact that not show it off in a way that kept people out of the room to them not listen to conversations about the morality of slavery and the laws being passed in the fact that there were free nations all over the world and the united states of america was taking a little bit long to get around to abolishment. there is a huge misunderstanding about enslaved cooks in the country, businesses in the images of uncle ben are still on our grocery shelves, still there. they are multi-fold. on one hand, people going into a grocery store will say it must be good. it'

>> thomas jefferson's religious views? >> yes. >> okay. i didn't mention thomas jefferson. that might be -- >> we'll jump in. >> you may be able to jump in. yeah, i mean -- my basic understanding of thomas jefferson is that he was a little more purely deistic in what he had to say. he famously trimmed the bible of certain texts that were miraculous because he mainly wanted to concentrate on the life and morals of jesus and see jesus as this example for morality, which was the key thing for him. and other than that, you know, that's -- i don't know much else about jefferson's religious views. >> i sometimes use the term, he was adhere rent of a natural religion, where he saw human reason as the final arbiter at the end of the day. which gave him pause when he encountered the transcendent claims, the miraculous claims that he read in the bible. if he couldn't understand or explain it through reason, then he had questioned -- reason to doubt it. having said that, he thought jesus of nazareth, who was the greatest moral teacher that there ever was, and there was great value in

i wrote a lot about thomas jefferson. why arey critics said, you criticizing thomas jefferson for slavery? he was just like any other man of his time. my answer is, we don't put just anybody on the nickel. we don't just put anybody on the two dollar bill. namen't just put anybody's on one building of the library of congress. we put people who were better than the men of their times. two more questions. slaves, where did he rank among the top slaveholders in virginia? dr. finkelman: no idea. he had a lot of money. he would have been on the forbes richest 1000 men in virginia. he is rich. >> thank you, professor. such an enlightening lecture. you said that john marshall wasn't corrupt, it was his perspective, his view of his life and his investment that influences decision. one thing that i love about history is, you can look at history to see who you are as a society today. i'm concerned about our court judges now, particularly the ones being nominated who are not even qualified intellectually to do the job. and our curren

he moved around and preached, loved thomas jefferson. he actually was a fervent bible believing baptist. and he loved jefferson. he thought jefferson was a gift of god. he knew about jefferson theology and that he disagreed with. but he thought jefferson was such a gift to the nation because of jefferson's politics. and he spoke about him like he was a biblical figure or something. so he had religious meaning and value even for baptists who day disagreed with him. he valued the baptist's take on politics because they read so well with what he thought of as his view of religion as basically about morality and freedom for individuals. >> if you look at his account book. s, he was very generous in giving money to ministers. he maintained friendships with many ministers, include iing th he would not have fwraeed with on theological matters. this was of some importance to him. when you look at jefferson's views, especially some of the an tee clerical statements he makes, i think it's always useful to look at the context in which he makes them.

although, people think of thomas jefferson as the great great francophile. thomas jefferson never learned french. he lived in france and never learned french. twain lived in germany and taught himself german. he was a tremendous intellect. his mother was a lively woman. twain was always a reader. he said when he worked in a bookstore in hannibal, missouri, as a young boy, he said that the customers were always getting in his way and never allowing them to read in peace. he also worked in the drugstore and said his prescriptions were not good, and they ended up selling more stomach pumps than soda water. [laughter] alan: he read widely and not systematically, which is part of the charm. >> how did he get along with harriet beecher so and other folks -- stowe and other folks at nook farm that he lived with? alan: they seemed to accept him. there was a question about whether or not he had gentility in his background. for such a rough character out of the mining camps in the west, he adjusted well to high society. nook farm was a community in hartford, connectic

he actually talked about thomas jefferson. and he was a very fervent, bible-believing baptist but he left jefferson.he but jefferson was a gift of god. and he knew about jefferson to an extent, but jefferson's theology, that he disagreed with , but he thought jefferson was just such a gift to the nation because of jefferson's politicsgod. and he knew aboutjefferson to . and he spoke about him like he was a biblicalfigure or something, so he had religious meaning and value evenfor baptists who disagreed with him. and he valued the baptists'take on politics because they read so well with what he thought of, as you were saying describing his view of religion asbasically about morality and freedom for individuals. >> if you look in his account books, he was very generous in givingmoney to ministers. he maintained friendships with manyministers, including ministers that he would not have agreed with on theological matters. i think this was of some importance to him. when you look at jefferson's views,especially some of the anticleri

john hemming is working for thomas jefferson. his nephews eston and madison would be working with him. jefferson purchases a full set --tools the tools are given to him through jefferson's will. he is also given his freedom and that time. he can make a living as a free man that way. we're happy that we're able to history, story of the along with the process of the restoration. >> we are here on historic pierce street in front of the home of robert johnson. we spoke to his grandson about dr. johnson is sick role in the desegregation of tennis -- dr. johnson's role in the desegregation of tennis. this is the location where it happened. 15th and pierce street. dr. johnson set up a junior development program in 1951 to train the best and brightest kids, mostly african-americans in the sport of tennis. he would mentor them, work on strategy and tactics and had his kids stay for the summer. it is usually about a dozen kids per year. line inwhere the color the sport of tennis was broken when his first junior development program player pl

. >> thomas jefferson's religious views? >> yes. >> well, i didn't mention thomas jefferson, but -- >> let me jump in. >> you may be able to jump in. my basic understanding of thomas jefferson is that he was a little bit more purely dee y-- deistically in what he had to say, because he was miraculous on concentrating on the life and morals of the examples of jesus as a morality which is the key thing for him. other than that, you know, that is also about religious views of -- >> i sometimes use the term offed a hernt to -- use the term adherent, because he used the the claims of the miraculous claims that he read in the bible, and if he could not understand through reason, he would have reason to doubt it. and so if jesus of nazareth was the greatest moral teacher that there was and there is great value in studying it, the kind of religion that he would have liked to warm to, and nondogmatic, and it would have been nonhierarchal, and mistrusted of the churches, and of the episcopal or the oriented around the bishops for exam

would you like thomas jefferson, anything related to thomas jefferson -- thomas jefferson has to go?rge washington has to go? who else is left? is madison okay? james madison okay with you? >> no, he is not okay. he was a slave owner. he is not. >> laura: okay. so we need to rename washington, d.c., correct? >> yes, i would do that. >> laura: okay, rename washington, d.c. >> that's not for me to determine. >> laura: no, we need to know, malcolm, where you are coming from. and we just established it, thank you very much. let's move on to thomas, thomas, time for you to talk on. white supremacy, we got it. thomas, what is your sense on this? >> well, laura, thank you for having me, first of all. i would like to say, i love the fact that malcolm wants to allow washington, d.c., to vote on the name of the capital. why didn't he allow us to have a vote in new orleans on the removal of the monuments? the mayor, the city council has decided for themselves on this issue -- >> laura: let him speak please come up malcolm. malcolm. malcolm, my friend. you must let the other guest speaker. it is

some americans were calling for the abolition of slavery one of these thomas jefferson proposed forming a colony in africa to take freed slaves but it wasn't until eight hundred sixty three after the civil war that slavery was finally abolished with it came the economic collapse of the southern states which depended on slaves the big plantations fell to ruin and two million freed slaves headed for the northern cities. for those who stayed behind life remained brutal well into the twentieth century lynching and murder where every day facts of life african-americans across the south. african-americans have been telling me that here in mississippi a place and i've always associated with prejudice they can now be muslim without prejudice and that this is an essential part of being a muslim in america the fight against prejudice and the struggle to be free and it was in pursuit of this struggle that in the early part of the twentieth century millions of african-americans abandoned the south and they headed north which is where i'm going next. i'm catching the night train to chicago following

a big part of the legacy of thomas jefferson in the founding fathers is freedom of expression it means a lot to americans including american muslims one of the most radical ways you can indulge this freedom is on stage through comedy. i mean washington d.c. about to get a lesson in free speech at a comedy club show you the real nicholas berg generation pakistani muslim woman she just won an ignite one is in america ruby nicholas won a national talent competition and became an overnight star my parents like when they came to this country they told everyone they were pakistani muslim immigrants so that i wouldn't have to grow up with the stigma being known as hawaiian. to me this is my mom that when nation of easter to me and my sister's two story. good. to. know i mean. i make stitch. on the east the jesus christ will come out of the gate. and if he does not see his shadow correct i. will be six more weeks of children i. think that you're going to redeem the books. and in the. end there's always a mixed bag of reaction and i mean there are some that really feel as though it is imminent.

it's grabbed right here thomas jefferson and so you know we said this was your reaction when you find the one of the founding fathers had his own copy of the koran i was gobsmacked. as a. huge head it was international. i didn't have much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim of the elect of the united states congress i thought the issue was going to be color. and i thought wow we've really made some great strides in terms of racial justice when people don't care that i'm black anymore they just they just suggested zot duck about religion but do you think keith that for all the grassroots activism in the muslim community that at a national level the fact is that most americans are still afraid of islam americans i think are subject to fear just like any people in the world but i think this is deeply rooted tolerance in people and we've been through a moment to civil rights movement we've been through all kinds of social change movements all marching the country toward a greater level of equality and i think people are just not ready to try to cut anybody out of the

kennedy george washington and thomas jefferson despite the fact that donald trump is the first modern president to not publicly release his taxes he is clearly the wealthiest u.s. president ever he inherited a large sum from his father and invested much of it in real estate resorts and casinos his total net worth is estimated to be three point one billion dollars and like donald trump j.f.k.'s wealth has a cause in that he died before he received his large inheritance from a spotter had he received the inheritance along with a wealth of his wife jacqueline it's estimated that j.f.k. had would have had a net worth of one billion dollars and coming in third is the birthday boy george washington who earned one of the largest u.s. salaries in fact he owned more than fifty thousand acres of land bringing his wealth to roughly five hundred twenty five million dollars and the fourth wealthiest president is one of the key authors of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states thomas jefferson who made most of his money through inheritance from his father in wh

dwight eisenhower, harry truman, thomas jefferson, john f.kennedy, ronald reagan, and rounding out the top ten greatest presidents, lyndon johnson. of course, there's the bottom of the scale too. unfortunately, who were the ten worst presidents? again, this is according to c-span's rankings. martin van buren, chester arthur, herbert hoover, fillmore, william henry harrison. you know, harrison was only president for about a month, so i'm not quite sure how bad he could have been, he wasn't there long enough to do anything. john tyler who, of course, succeeded harrison, warren harding, franklin pearce. other johnson and james buchanan, certainly i do think deserves to be at the bottom. i'm going to come back to that in just a second. so i think we can all pretty much agree that these ten folks belong where they are. i'm also asked an awful lot what is the best preparation for being president? well, there's really no one thing that qualifies you for being president. obviously, many presidents have taken very different routes to get to the white

thomas jefferson was our first secretary of state. george washington formally asked him to be secretary of state. he was in france at the time but he agreed. the first was in new york and then it moved to philadelphia in 1790. it was there for about 10 years until all of the federal offices moved back to washington dc. the department of state is very small but they had -- there was no home for them until 1819 when a brick structure was built flanking the white house. that was the home of the department of state for a number of years. john quincy adams was the first secretary to occupy that space. sewardt was william right after the civil war. it was determined it was too small. they needed a bigger building. that building was demolished and the building put in its place is old executive office building, but in 1875 it was the new executive office building. it remained there until it was determined once again that it was too small, mostly because of world war two and we realized we needed not only embassies but we needed more protectio

goesis a tradition that all the way back to 1803, when thomas jefferson was president of the united states and on occasion, the men from the osage tribe had an occasion to go to as one of the gifts that they were given was a military coat, a red military coat. and that became a prized possession, one of the nicest , and the the tribe girls started getting married in it. tradition allowed the firstborn girl to wear red, and then other girls could wear different colors. popular, especially at the turn-of-the-century. it was very popular at the museum and it was basically a calendar. it was how plains tribes could keep track of their history. it was done by different emblems that mean different things and for each year, there was something selected that was one of the most important things that happened to that tribe. 100 tomost of these scan 150 years, but he gives us a history of what happened during that period to the drive it. we hope that when visitors leave here, that they have learned something about the ancient history of people on north and south america. most people come to the indi

thomas jefferson was the first secretary of state. george washington formally asked him to be secretary of state. he was in france at the time, but agreed. the first home was in new york, and shortly afterwards it moved to philadelphia in 1790.it was there for about 10 years until all the federal offices moved to washington dc. the department of state, very there was no home permanently for them until 1819 when a brick structure was built flanking the white house on 15th street. that was the home of the department of state for a number of years in 1819. john quincy adams was the first secretary to occupy that. the last was william seward, right after the civil war. it was determined that it was too small and they needed a much bigger building. that holding was demolished. the building put in its place was the current -- the old executive office building. the state remained there for a very long time until it was determined once again it was too small, mostly because of world we ii, and we realized needed not only an disease, we needed

franklin, thomas jefferson, many of their friends wanted to give it a try.death,s after franklin's jefferson wrote that he considered himself a christian in the only sense jesus wished anyone to be. jesus's point of view. to jefferson, jesus was only human. it jesus never claimed to be anything else. christians including the authors of the new and testament books imposed the claims of divinity on him after he and gone to his grave and not risen again. franklin did not go as far as jefferson. preferred not to dogma ties on matters such as divinity. in a classic tension that still marks american religion right now, franklin's devout parents, his sister, george whitfield all found doctrine less christianity to be dangerous. they agreed that morality was essential and it was better not to fight over minor theological issues. was belief in jesus necessary for salvation. to the puritans and evangelicals, he was fully god and fully man. doubting that puts your soul in jeopardy. jesus made the way for centers to be saved through his death and resurrection. it wasn't

we were both on the papers of thomas jefferson. he got a letter one morning asking me if i would do this. there was a man named paul golub who does the editing for this series. he and i worked together previously on a book vernon jordan's memoires. two people i knew who asked me to do this, two people i liked very much, 40,000 words, and an interesting time period. and so i said yes. once i started doing research -- and i knew about andrew johnson, i understood who he was and his role in history. but i had never spent that much time studying him. and i had studied the civil war and the reconstruction era, which he really more or less belongs to from a distance because in some ways i find it the more heartbreaking part of american history. studying slavery is a serious thing. it can be very, very difficult, very challenging to think about that time, going through the farm book, going through letters about sales of people and so forth. but it seems distant. it seems really, really far away. and you can kind of become detached from th

when they saw what was happening, they went out to the statue of thomas jefferson to say that is not what this campus stans for, that's not what thomas jefferson stood for or what the ideals about the declaration about. some people like to call your generation snowflakes. i say go and take a look at what they did that night when they stood down that band of fascist thugs and hooligan who's came to charlottesville and killed heather hay heather heyer and they were outnumbered 10-1. i've got a lot of faith in your generation. >> i believe on that very positive note, and after a great conversation, we'll draw it to a close. i'd like to thank our guests for your terrific conversation. and sharing your time as well. [ applause ] >> and thanks to jane, too. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, georgia republican congressman rob woodall discusses the 2019 budget and infrastructure plan. and welles lee college professor katherine moon will discuss the u.s. goal of using the olympics to highlight issues with n

his work with thomas jefferson and his invocation of the creator and nature and nature's god. or his solitary insistence on prayer at the convention. when you add his propensity for joking about serious matters, he becomes even more difficult to pin down. regarding his chameleon like religion, john adams once remarked that the catholics thought him almost a catholic, the church of england claimed him as one of them, the presbyterians thought him half a presbyterian, and the friends believed tempo wet quaker. that is a quaker that is not so well behaved. the key to understanding his ambivalent faith is the contrast between the skepticism of his adult life and the imprint of his childhood. the intense piety and faith of his parents acted as a tether, restraining his skepticism. as a teenager, he abandoned the puritan beliefs. that same traditional faith kept him from getting too far away. he would stretch his moral and doctrinal tether to the breaking point. by the end of a youthful soldier and he made to london. when he returned to philadelphia in 1726, he resolved to conform m

located along the james river it is home to both liberty university and thomas jefferson's retreat, poplar forest. our comcastp of cable partners, we will explore lynchburg's rich literary life. tv we will on book visit the and spencer house to hear about how this poet brought the harlem renaissance to lynchburg. anne spencer was an american poet associated with the harlem renaissance. how she became involved with the harlem renaissance is how harlem comes to lynchburg. there is a group of people who are associated with that period of time that people do not know about. on sunday at 2:00 eastern on american history tv, an interview with liberty university president jerry falwell jr. about the origins of the university, its impact on lynchburg, and the role evangelicals play in politics. >> in spite of trump's background, they are pleasantly surprised with how he has come around on issues important to the evangelicals and how he has been the best president for and i think he's going to end up being one of the greatest presidents we have ever had. with the conversation brand son of -- the gr

he did a lot of these tobacco transactions for thomas jefferson who was getting into growing and selling tobacco at his nearby home. when he built this home, he named it sandusky, which was a shawnee indian word that means by the cool waters meaning lake erie. that episode in his life had such a profound affect on his life that he named his estate after that place where he won his freedom. he also wrote a memoir about his captivity at the hands of the shawnee indians. it is a fascinating account. charles made his fortune in the tobacco trade. that was very important to virginia's economy. what goes up must come down. in 1818, the tobacco market crashed in virginia. charles went from prosperity to poverty practically overnight. he was forced to sell sandusky. he cannot afford to keep it up. him showingdeed of where he sold it in 1818 to christopher clark. now we are going to take a look at some of the later owners of historic sandusky. this is the formal parlor of historic sandusky. it is restored to the 1850's era. this is our third interpretive. -- this is our third interpretive period.

>> thomas jefferson and britain and france wanted to give it a try. 13 years after franklin's death, jefferson wrote he considered himself a christian in the only sense jesus wished anyone to be. he admired jesus', quote, moral doctrines as more pure and perfect than any other philosophers, jefferson said, but to jefferson, jesus' excellence was only human. jesus never claimed to be anything else, jefferson said. authors imposed the claims of divinity on jesus after he had gone to his grave and not risen again, jefferson concluded. well, franklin didn't go as far as jefr sorn. franklin preferred not to dogmatize one way or the other on jesus' divinity. in a classic tension that still marks american religion right now, franklin's devout parents, his sister jane and the reverend george whitfield all found doctrineless christianity to be dangerous. yes, they agreed that morality was essential and, yes, it was better not to fight over minor theological issues, but true belief in jesus was necessary for salvation to the puritans and evangelicals, jesus was fully god and fully man. doubting

people think of thomas jefferson phile. great franco he never learned french. his mother was a very lively funny woman. twain was always a reader. he said when he worked in a book store in hannibal, missouri, as a young boy, he said that the customers were always getting in his way and never allowing him to read in peace. [laughter] he also worked in a drug store and said his prescriptions weren't very good and they ended up selling more stomach pumps than soda water. [laughter] , and yet not dely systemically, which is part of the charm of the man. >> how did he get along with harriet beacher stowe when he lived in hard forward? >> they seem to have accepted as as much of a provincial he was. this confer of whether or not he had some gentility in his background, for such a rough character right out of the mining camps of the west, he adjusted very well to high society. the farm was a community in hartford, connecticut, settled by -- tended to be very well educated, socially progressive people. harriet beacher stowe was a neighbor. he seems to have gotten along

tobacco from richmond onward and he did a number of these tobacco transacti transactions for thomas jefferson who was getting into growing and selling tobacco at his nearby home poplar for est. when he e built the home, it was sandusky meaning a shawnee indian word meaning by the cool waters meaning lake erie, and that the episode in his life had such a profound effect on his life that he named the estate thaf place where he won his freedom, and he also wrote a memoir about the captivities at the land hands of the shawn knee indians. it is a fascinating -- at the hands of the shawnee indians. and so he made his livingp on the tobacco trade. and that that was a very important part of the virginia economy. and often what goes up must come down. in and in 1880, the tobacco industry went down, and he so he went from prosperity to poverty overnight. he could not keep up sandusky, and we have the deed showing where he sold it in 1818 to christopher clark. so now we will take a look at the later owners of the historic sandusky. this is the formal parlor of sandusky, and ree stored to the 1850s era,