Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

26/12/2016 1h 22min

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Episode Synopsis

Thomas Jefferson had a vision for the United States of America but race and slavery complicated his views of what kind of society was possible on the American continent. One of the foremost scholars on Jefferson, Pulitzer prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of American Legal History at Harvard University.

Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31530]

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