Look, Thomas Jefferson Was Neither (Just) A Founding Father Deity Nor A Slave-Owning Monster, Say Historians

Peter S. Onuf: “Every Jefferson biography on the shelf is a polemic, one way or another, but we wanted to get beyond that.” Annette Gordon-Reed: “People read history the way we watch movies, where you have a good guy and a bad guy. What’s the point of even going to the library to do research if you already know what you think?”