Getting Jefferson Right
Getting Jefferson Right Endorsement – Greg Forster
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…
Read MoreFirst Endorsement of the Second Edition – Paul Harvey
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…
Read MoreJohn D. Wilsey Endorses Getting Jefferson Right
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…
Read MoreDavid Barton on Real Life with Jack Hibbs: Did the University of Virginia Have Chaplains?
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…
Read MoreVirginia Slave Law: 1782 Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves.
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…
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