ShareIn his second edition of The Jefferson Lies, David Barton provides a lengthy critique of our work in Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President. We intend to use that material in our own second edition which I hope to publish sometime in 2016. In response to Barton’s new edition, I am going […]
Gnadenhutten Massacre Revisited: An Extended Response to David Barton
ShareIn his World article (No, I’m not wrong), David Barton claims that we are incorrect about the motivation for legislation including a reference to the Society of United Brethren for the Propagating of the Gospel Among the Heathen. Read on… There were actually five different Gnadenhuttens. Brethren missionary David Zeisberger’s biographer Edmund De Schweinitz provided […] Continue Reading...
About Getting Jefferson Right
ShareGetting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President by Warren Throckmorton PhD, Michael Coulter PhD Nearly two centuries after his death, Thomas Jefferson continues to be the subject of competing claims about his public policy and his private beliefs. NOW AVAILABLE: Getting Jefferson Right in paperback. Many have asked for it and so here […] Continue Reading...
Getting Jefferson Right in Paperback
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Getting Jefferson Right for Kindle or Other Digital Device
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David Barton on Real Life with Jack Hibbs: Did the University of Virginia Have Chaplains?
ShareDavid Barton was on Calvary Chapel pastor Jack Hibbs’ show Real Life with Jack Hibbs last night. Part one is available on You Tube with apparently more to come. They didn’t get into much until near the end of this segment. At about 22 minutes into the video, Barton accuses others of using history to […]
Virginia Slave Law: 1782 Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves.
ShareThis law (scroll to page 39) allowed the emancipation of slaves by an owner either at death through a will or while an owner was alive via a deed of manumission. Many slaves were freed by their owners as the result of this law. Legal adults of sound mind and body did not need support from […]
The Emancipation of James Armistead Lafayette
ShareIn his World rebuttal to us, David Barton claims that the case of James Armistead Lafayette proves that we did not take into account slave laws other than the 1782 law allowing owners to emancipate their slaves. The situation of this slave who became a double agent during the Revolutionary War is an interesting story […]
Jefferson and Slavery: A Response to David Barton on the Glenn Beck Show, Part Three
ShareUPDATE: David Barton made many of the same defenses in his World Magazine article dated January 22, 2013. Barton concluded: Simply put, Jefferson did not have the financial resources necessary to free his 260 slaves. In these three articles about Jefferson and slavery we anticipate and address the rebuttal Barton offered in his World article. Barton […]
Jefferson and Slavery: A Response to David Barton on the Glenn Beck Show, Part Two
ShareUPDATE: David Barton made many of the same defenses in his World Magazine article dated January 22, 2013. Barton concluded: Simply put, Jefferson did not have the financial resources necessary to free his 260 slaves. In these three articles about Jefferson and slavery we anticipate and address the rebuttal Barton offered in his World article. Barton claims […]
Jefferson and Slavery: A Response to David Barton on the Glenn Beck Show, Part One
ShareBy Michael Coulter & Warren Throckmorton UPDATE: David Barton made many of the same defenses in his World Magazine article dated January 22, 2013. Barton concluded: Simply put, Jefferson did not have the financial resources necessary to free his 260 slaves. In these three articles about Jefferson and slavery we anticipate and address the rebuttal Barton offered in […]
David Barton’s Capitol Tour: Did Thomas Jefferson Spend Federal Funds to Evangelize the Kaskaskia Indians?
ShareThis week, Michael Coulter and I are going to present a series of reactions to an eight minute YouTube video of David Barton’s Capitol Tour. Sponsored by the Family Research Council, the video provides narration from Barton speaking in the Rotunda of the Capitol. First, I am going to revisit Barton’s fable about Jefferson and […]
Price Reduced – Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President
ShareGet the book David Barton doesn’t want you to see. Now get it cheaper. Until early next week, I am lowering the price of the Getting Jefferson Right in paperback to $9.95 (23% off) and the Kindle version to $3.99 (20% off). It will take awhile for the Kindle price to change on Amazon but you can get the […]
Getting Jefferson Right now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble
ShareNOW AVAILABLE: Getting Jefferson Right in paperback. Many have asked for it and so here it is in print. It will be available on the main Amazon site in a few days and then in stores within a month. The eBook, Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President is still available on Amazon.com and Barnes […]