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Getting Jefferson Right Endorsement – Greg Forster

September 27, 2023

Greg Forster is Senior Fellow and Affiliate Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. He is also the president of the Karam Fellowship. Greg sent along the following endorsement of the second edition of Getting Jefferson Right: Ideologues and demagogues are working harder than ever to control how the story of our history is told. We cannot even speak to each other effectively, much less find common ground, if…

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First Endorsement of the Second Edition – Paul Harvey

September 18, 2023

Dr. Paul Harvey endorsed the first edition and after getting a look at the second edition wanted to endorse it again. Getting Jefferson Right is an excellent example of the art of historical contextualization, of trying to tell the whole story, not just part of it. For those reasons, the work should become a standard reference. -Paul Harvey, Professor of History, University of Colorado We want to thank Dr. Harvey for his endorsement and confidence…

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John D. Wilsey Endorses Getting Jefferson Right

December 26, 2015

In 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 to publish some additional endorsements for Getting Jefferson Right by historians and other scholars.  Today, historian and theologian Dr. John D.…

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David Barton on Real Life with Jack Hibbs: Did the University of Virginia Have Chaplains?

February 17, 2015

David 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 support an agenda. Then he illustrates how he revises the work of PhDs in history with original sources by citing…

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Virginia Slave Law: 1782 Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves.

February 22, 2013

This 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 former master but children, those over 45 and others not of sound mind or body needed support from the…

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