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On April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born at Shadwell, Virginia. Over 270 years later, Jefferson is trending on Twitter. Many people want to claim Jefferson. Today, for instance, the Heritage Foundation has an article claiming that the Tea Party embodies Jefferson’s legacy. Jefferson had many sides and wasn’t perfectly consistent. The letter to James … Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Thomas Jefferson – Share the Land”
Ecclesia College, a Christian college in Arkansas, has created the David Barton School of Political Science. I wonder if my political scientist co-author on Getting Jefferson Right, Michael Coulter will want to move South. Right Wing Watch brought the news to a grateful public. The Ecclesia press release is here. And you can watch: [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ha3wGLVZA[/youtube] … Continue reading “Your Daily Dose of David Barton: He's Got a School Named After Him and He Thinks Revolution Might Be Near”
David Barton is a confusing fellow. Sometimes he tells one story and other times he contradicts himself. Take the facts surrounding Thomas Jefferson’s Quran. Jefferson owned a Quran and Barton has told a couple of different stories about it. First, he told Glenn Beck that Jefferson bought the Quran while on a mission to Islamic … Continue reading “David Barton Can’t Decide When or Why Thomas Jefferson Got His Quran”
Over at World Net Daily, David Barton says that [Ted] Cruz is the candidate who comes closest to Jefferson and what he believes were the third president’s principles on “debt, religious liberty, and the war on Islam.” Barton has been elevated to “historian and Thomas Jefferson scholar” and uses his WND platform to assert that the … Continue reading “David Barton: Thomas Jefferson Would Like Ted Cruz for President”
In the 2012 edition of The Jefferson Lies, David Barton claimed to debunk the notion that the University of Virginia (founded by Jefferson) had no chaplains. He took up this as one of his major points as evidence that Jefferson established UVA as a “transdenominational” college. See below from the first edition of The Jefferson … Continue reading “David Barton Removes Claim About Chaplains at the University of Virginia in New Edition of The Jefferson Lies”