Now that my History Presentation is over, and all I have left are 3 final exams, I now have time to get back into my favorite project!

Here's the list, and as you can see I've finished 2 more, and 50% done with another.
= Done

As always, I encourage everyone to look these people up and read about their great lives! Perhaps close your eyes and pick one randomly each day? Learn something new Also, I'm going to try and leave this list up for awhile, so you all can see how it's progressing. As always, there will be bonus! sprites upon completion.

1.) Malinche
2.) Daniel Boone
3.) John Winthrop
4.) Anne Hutchinson (I don't like her, but hey, others do so whatev)
5.) Emmy Noether
6.) August Ferdinand Mobius
7.) Peter Gustav Lejuene Dirichlet
8.) Saint Genevieve
9.) Arnaldus de Villanova
10.) Thomas Becket
11.) Catherine of Aragon
12.) Edward IV of England
13.) Martha Washington
14.) John Jay
15.) William Harvey
16.) Captain Jack Rackham
17.) Prince Albert Consort
18.) Christian Rosenkreuz (look up this guy, he's awesome!)
20.) Queen Anne
21.) Pierre-Simon de Laplace
22.) Count Alessandro di Cagliostro
23.) Roger Bacon
24.) Janos Bolyai
25.) Edward the Black Prince
26.) William Blake
27.) Edmund Burke
28.) Sir Richard Burton
29.) Robert the Bruce
30.) John Cabot
31.) Edmund Cartwright
32.) Abigail Adams
33.) Geoffrey Chaucer
34.) Captain James Cook
35.) Hans Christian Andersen
36.) Thomas Carlyle
37.) Lief Erikson
38.) Dwight Eisenhower
39.) Owain Glyn Dwr
40.) Robert R. Livingston
41.) Amelia Earhart
42.) Thomas Hobbes
43.) Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
44.) Jean-Francois Champollion
45.) Filippo Brunelleschi
46.) Mac Bethad mac Findlaíc - Macbeth
47.) Claude Monet
48.) Jacob Bernoullis
49.) Adrien Marie Legendre
50.) Dolly Madison
51.) Adam Smith
52.) Charles Trevelyan
53.) Johann Bernoullis
54.) Louisa May Alcott
55.) Molly Pitcher
56.) Eleanor Roosevelt
57.) Anne Sullivan
58.) Harriet Beecher Stowe
59.) Daniel Bernoullis
60.) Elbridge Gerry
61.) Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
62.) Lorenzo Ghiberti
63.) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
64.) David Hume
65.) Immanuel Kant
66.) Margaret Cavendish
67.) Saint Thérèse de Lisieux
68.) Jahanara Begum Sahib
69.) Alexandra Feodorovna
70.) Lady Jane Grey
71.) Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
72.) Francis Lightfoot Lee
73.) Peter Paul Rubens
74.) Roger Sherman
75.) Frederick Douglass
76.) George Washington Carver
77.) Harriet Tubman
78.) Sojourner Truth
79.) Samuel de Champlain
80.) Orville Wright
81.) Wilbur Wright
82.) William Wilberforce
83.) George Whitefield
84.) Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
85.) Sir George Ripley
86.) Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner
87.) Frederick Handel
88.) Charles Wilson Peale
89.) Samuel Finley Breese Morse
90.) Henry David Thoreau
91.) George Westinghouse, Jr
92.) Igor Stravinsky
93.) Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko
94.) Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova
95.) Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt
96.) Maria Mitchell
97.) Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
98.) Comte d'Argenson, Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy
99.) Sir Thomas Malory
100.) Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

101.) Robert Carter III
102.) Jacques-Louis David
103.) Mercy Otis Warren
104.) Phillis Wheatley
105.) Paul Revere
106.) Thomas Tallis
107.) Donatello
108.) Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
109.) John Paul Jones
110.) Madame de Montespan
111.) Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun
112.) Jean-Jacques Dessalines
113.) M. Gustave de Beaumont
114.) Giovanni Boccaccio
115.) Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
116.) Francesco Petrarch
117.) Andreas Vesalius
118.) Giovanni Palestrina
119.) Leopold Kronecker
120.) William Harvey
121.) Anton Philips von Leeuwenhoek
122.) Robert Hooke
123.) Hildegard of Bingen
124.) John Dee
125.) Johann Friedrich Schweitzer
126.) Adrian von Mynsicht
127.) Jan Baptist van Helmont
128.) Sir Henry Bessemer
129.) John Keats
130.) Anna Seward
131.) William Small
132.) Jesse Woodson James
133.) Robert LeRoy Parker (Butch Cassidy)
134.) Henry McCarty (Billy the Kid)
135.) Pierre de Fermat
136.) Joseph-Louis Lagrange
137.) Saint Moses the Black
138.) François-Auguste-René Rodin
139.) Gen. Howe
140.) William Barret Travis
141.) Édouard Manet
142.) Paul Cézanne
143.) Benedict de Spinoza
144.) Helen Keller
145.) Dr.Daniel Hale Williams
146.) Sir Alexander Fleming
147.) Hugh Mercer
148.) St. Valentine
149.) Leonardo of Pisa (fibonacci)
150.) Hugues de Payens
151.) Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
152.) Jacques de Molay
153.) Saint Euphemia
154.) Wolfram von Eschenbach
155.) Chrétien de Troyes
156.) Guillaume de Villaret
157.) Hélion de Villeneuve
158.) Roger de Moulins
159.) Saint Theodore of Amasea
160.) Saint Catherine of Alexandria
161.) Saint Roseline
162.) Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp
163.) John Henry "Doc" Holliday
164.) Claude Adrien Helvétius
165.) Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
166.) Louis, 4th duc de Noailles
167.) Charles Théveneau de Morande
168.) Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
169.) Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie
170.) Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova
171.) Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
172.) Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
173.) Louis XVII
174.) Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
175.) Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
176.) Prince Grigori Alexandrovich Potyomkin-Tavricheski
177.) Catherine I of Russia
178.) Empress Elizabeth of Russia
179.) Empress Anna of Russia
180.) Ivan Petrovich Kulibin
181.) Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
182.) Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
183.) Marie Bashkirtseff
184.) Eusebius of Caesarea
185.) Saint Theodoret
186.) John James Audubon
187.) Alexander Wilson
188.) Robert Tannahill
189.) Robert Burns
190.) William Motherwell
191.) Thomas Say
192.) Charles Alexandre Lesueur
193.) Noah Webster
194.) Samuel Johnson
195.) Nicolas-Thomas Baudin
196.) Francois Auguste Peron
197.) Karl Friedrich Gauss
198.) Sophie Germain
199.) Leonhard Euler
200.) Jules Henri Poincare
191.) Augustin Louis Cauchy
192.) Bernard Riemann
193.) Georg Canto
194.) Arthur Cayley
195.) William Rowan Hamilton
196.) Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein
197.) Niels Henrik Abel
199.) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
200.) Evariste Galois

Extra Ideas:


Nikolas Ivanovitch Lobatchewsky
Margaret Beaufort
Manfred von Richthofen
Oswald Boelcke
Wilmer McLain
Anders Celsius
Carolus Linnaeus
Daniel Bernoulli
Christiaan Huygens
Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Emilie Charlotte Le Breton
Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd
Jeanne Hatchette
Inés Suárez
Catalina de Erauso
Agnes Randolph, 4th Countess of Moray
Kit Cavanagh
Eleanor of Arborea
Hannah Snell
Ann Mills
Ann Bates
Manuela Beltrán
Deborah Sampson
Beau Brummel
Lily Langtry
Theroigne de Mericourt
Sir John Moore
Sir James Wolfe
Marshall Ney
Reverend Richard Allen
Absalom Jones
Benjamin Rush
Francis Fauquier
George Wythe
Giordano Bruno
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Jean-Louis Michel
Henry de Sainct Didier

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ps. In the spirit of my thesis, I'm starting a Jeffersonian book collection. I'm leaving a sort of wish-list on here for myself, but I want you guys to contribute! If you know of a good Thomas Jefferson-related book and it's not on here, tell me cause I would love to check it out!

"Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800..." by John Ferling
"A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election..." by Edward J. Larson
"America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election" by Bernard A. Weisberger
"Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson" by Roger G. Kennedy
"Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Sarah Nicholas Randolph
"Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline..." by Susan Dunn
"Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson" by Robert W. Tucker
"Essential Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson
"Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the..." by Gary Nash
"Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Robert C. Baron
"Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson, The" by John Dos Passos
"In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal" by William G. Hyland Jr.
"In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson” by Noble E. Jr Cunningham
“Jefferson and his Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty” by Allen Johnson
"Jefferson's Demons: Portrait of a Restless Mind" by Michael Knox Beran
"Jefferson and the Gun-Men: How the West Was Almost Lost" by M. R. Montgomery
"Jefferson Image in the American Mind, The" by Merrill D Peterson
"Jefferson & Madison: The Great Collaboration" by Adrienne Koch
"Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder" by Jack Mclaughlin
"Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800..." by Susan Dunn
"Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello" by Andrew Burstein
"Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness" by Thomas Jefferson, ed. Eric Petersen
"Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson" by Edmund S. Morgan
"Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Professor William Howard Adams
"Passions : The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson" by James M. Gabler
"Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Garret Ward Sheldon
"Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Forrest McDonald
"Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Charles B. Sanford
"Republic of Letters, The: The Correspondence Between Thomas…" by James Morton Smith
"Road to Monticello, The: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson" by Kevin J. Hayes
“Sage of Monticello, The” by Dumas Malone
"Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison" by I. Bernard Cohen
"Thomas Jefferson" by R. B. Bernstein
"Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece" by Richard Guy Wilson
"Thomas Jefferson & Alexander Hamilton" by John S. Pancake
"Thomas Jefferson: America's Paradoxical Patriot" by Alf Mapp
"Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power" by Jeremy D. Bailey
"Thomas Jefferson and the Law" by Edward Dumbald
"Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation" by Merrill D. Peterson
"Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" by Fawn M. Brodie
"Thomas Jefferson: Author of America" by Christopher Hitchens
"Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation" by Natalie S. Bober
"Thomas Jefferson: Lawyer" by Frank L. Dewey
"Thomas Jefferson's Monticello" by William L. Beiswanger
"Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography" by James Cross Giblin
"Thomas Jefferson on Wine" by John Hailman
"Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy" by Annette Gordon-Reed
“Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789” by Anthony Brandt
"Understanding Thomas Jefferson: Studies in Economics, Law and Philosophy" by M. L. Burstein
"'Ye Will Say I Am No Christian': The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values" by Bruce Braden

Ones I Already Have:

"Adams – Jefferson Letters, The” edited by Lester J. Capton
"American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson” by Joseph J. Ellis
"Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson
"Dinner at Mr. Jefferson’s” by Charles A. Cerami
"Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, The"
"Inner Jefferson, The: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist" by Andrew Burstein
“Jefferson Bible, The” by Thomas Jefferson
"Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of..." by Charles Cerami
"Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American" ed. by Bernard Mayo
"Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and..." by Joseph Wheelan
"Jefferson: The Virginian" by Dumas Malone
"Lost World of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Daniel J. Boorstein
"Mr. Jefferson's Women" by Jon Kukla
"Notes on the State of Virginia" by Thomas Jefferson
"Quotations of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson
"Thomas Jefferson: A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall
"Thomas Jefferson: American Humanist" by Karl Lehmann
"Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim" by Alf J. Mapp
"Thomas Jefferson: Scientist" by Edwin T. Martin
"Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity" by Alf J. Mapp
"Tom Jefferson: A Boy in Colonial Days" by Helen A. Monsell
"Twilight at Monticello" by Alan Pell Crawford
"Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the…" by Stephen Ambrose
"Wolf by the Ears, The: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery" by F. Thornton Miller
"Young Jefferson: 1743 - 1789, The" by Claude G. Bowers

Groups I've Joined:



<- I am not a member, but I want more people to know about this group!

MY PRESENTATION WENT GREAT!

So I walk in, really nervous, and my regular adviser was going to be my judge but he's a good guy (and he was acting nervous for me!), and my thesis adviser was there as well and he's a really brilliant man who's also very nice, pretty much the model of a perfect teacher.

But while my thesis advisor sat up front munching on a doughnut, and my sister sat with little Thomas Jefferson plushie on her lap, I turn around and see my wonderful crew come in the room. I know I asked them if they would like to come, but it's still very sweet and touching to see them file in and smile and wave and wish me luck. They all know I'm a huge Thomas Jefferson nerd, and they encourage it. They're the kind of friends who come to me and say, "My professor mentioned Thomas Jefferson today! I laughed because I thought of you!" They're all really good kids.

Well I get up there, kind of shaking, but I started my presentation. I had a lot of information to cover in just 10 minutes, but I got to all my points and then some. But whenever I started to feel a pause coming on or that tiny knot in my stomach, I would look at them and they were all being adorable. You guys would love them, they sat there, passing Thomas Jefferson plushie between each other and making him wave at me, dance, and basically I had to try hard not to laugh. They're all so cute and geeky and wonderful!

But thanks to you guys for your well wishes, I really appreciate it. It's like, you read and read and read, and write papers, and then it all comes down to one presentation. I just hope I made Teej proud, because I certainly learned a lot along the way and despite all the new books coming out criticizing Jefferson, I hope I got it through people's heads that he's just a guy, just a human, and I honestly don't like to keep him in the "OMG GOD AMONG MEN FOUNDING FATHER" category.

So a toast to mah man Teej!

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ps. In the spirit of my thesis, I'm starting a Jeffersonian book collection. I'm leaving a sort of wish-list on here for myself, but I want you guys to contribute! If you know of a good Thomas Jefferson-related book and it's not on here, tell me cause I would love to check it out!

"Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800..." by John Ferling
"A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election..." by Edward J. Larson
"America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election" by Bernard A. Weisberger
"Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson" by Roger G. Kennedy
"Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Sarah Nicholas Randolph
"Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline..." by Susan Dunn
"Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson" by Robert W. Tucker
"Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Nation: Thomas Jefferson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Agrippa Hull" by Gary Nash
"Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Robert C. Baron
"Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson, The" by John Dos Passos
"In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal" by William G. Hyland Jr.
“In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson” by Noble E. Jr Cunningham
“Jefferson and his Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty” by Allen Johnson
"Jefferson and the Gun-Men: How the West Was Almost Lost" by M. R. Montgomery
"Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800..." by Susan Dunn
"Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello" by Andrew Burstein
"Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and..." by Joseph Wheelan
"Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness" by Thomas Jefferson, ed. Eric Petersen
"Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson" by Edmund S. Morgan
"Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Professor William Howard Adams
"Passions : The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson" by James M. Gabler
"Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Garret Ward Sheldon
"Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Forrest McDonald
"Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Charles B. Sanford
"Road to Monticello, The: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson" by Kevin J. Hayes
“Sage of Monticello, The” by Dumas Malone
"Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison" by I. Bernard Cohen
"Thomas Jefferson" by R. B. Bernstein
"Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece" by Richard Guy Wilson
"Thomas Jefferson: A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall
"Thomas Jefferson & Alexander Hamilton" by John S. Pancake
"Thomas Jefferson: America's Paradoxical Patriot" by Alf Mapp
"Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power" by Jeremy D. Bailey
"Thomas Jefferson and the Law" by Edward Dumbald
"Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation" by Merrill D. Peterson
"Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" by Fawn M. Brodie
"Thomas Jefferson: Author of America" by Christopher Hitchens
"Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation" by Natalie S. Bober
"Thomas Jefferson: Lawyer" by Frank L. Dewey
"Thomas Jefferson's Monticello" by William L. Beiswanger
"Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim" by Alf J. Mapp
"Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography" by James Cross Giblin
"Thomas Jefferson on Wine" by John Hailman
"Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy" by Annette Gordon-Reed
“Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789” by Anthony Brandt
"Understanding Thomas Jefferson: Studies in Economics, Law and Philosophy" by M. L. Burstein
"'Ye Will Say I Am No Christian': The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values" by Bruce Braden

Ones I Already Have:

"Adams – Jefferson Letters, The” edited by Lester J. Capton
"American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson” by Joseph J. Ellis
"Dinner at Mr. Jefferson’s” by Charles A. Cerami
"Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, The"
“Jefferson Bible, The” by Thomas Jefferson
"Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of..." by Charles Cerami
"Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American" ed. by Bernard Mayo
"Jefferson: The Virginian" by Dumas Malone
"Notes on the State of Virginia" by Thomas Jefferson
"Thomas Jefferson: American Humanist" by Karl Lehmann
"Thomas Jefferson: Scientist" by Edwin T. Martin
"Tom Jefferson: A Boy in Colonial Days" by Helen A. Monsell
"Twilight at Monticello" by Alan Pell Crawford
"Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the…" by Stephen Ambrose
"Wolf by the Ears, The: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery" by F. Thornton Miller
"Young Jefferson: 1743 - 1789, The" by Claude G. Bowers

So tomorrow I'm giving my final presentation on Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with his mentors while he attended William and Mary. It's been hard, VERY stressful, very busy, and there were times when I considered beating my head in with my hairbrush...but overall it's been a wonderful experience. I've had my friends to root for me along the way, pat me on the head when I freaked out, and now I'm looking forward to seeing their grinning faces in the audience. Next week is finals week, but I'll be seeing my favorite professors after Christmas. I've got 3 history classes planned for next semester, so it promises to be fun!

Wish me luck! I need all I can get!

ps. In the spirit of my thesis, I'm starting a Jeffersonian book collection. I'm leaving a sort of wish-list on here for myself, but I want you guys to contribute! If you know of a good Thomas Jefferson-related book and it's not on here, tell me cause I would love to check it out!

"Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800..." by John Ferling
"A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election..." by Edward J. Larson
"America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election" by Bernard A. Weisberger
"Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson" by Roger G. Kennedy
"Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline..." by Susan Dunn
"Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson, The" by John Dos Passos
"In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal" by William G. Hyland Jr.
“In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson” by Noble E. Jr Cunningham
“Jefferson and his Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty” by Allen Johnson
"Jefferson and the Gun-Men: How the West Was Almost Lost" by M. R. Montgomery
"Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800..." by Susan Dunn
"Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and..." by Joseph Wheelan
"Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, The" by Garret Ward Sheldon
"Road to Monticello, The: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson" by Kevin J. Hayes
“Sage of Monticello, The” by Dumas Malone
"Thomas Jefferson" by R. B. Bernstein
"Thomas Jefferson: A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall
"Thomas Jefferson & Alexander Hamilton" by John S. Pancake
"Thomas Jefferson and the Law" by Edward Dumbald
"Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation" by Merrill D. Peterson
"Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" by Fawn M. Brodie
"Thomas Jefferson: Author of America" by Christopher Hitchens
"Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation" by Natalie S. Bober
"Thomas Jefferson: Lawyer" by Frank L. Dewey
"Thomas Jefferson on Wine" by John Hailman
"Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy" by Annette Gordon-Reed
“Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789” by Anthony Brandt

Ones I Already Have:

"Adams – Jefferson Letters, The” edited by Lester J. Capton
"American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson” by Joseph J. Ellis
"Dinner at Mr. Jefferson’s” by Charles A. Cerami
"Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, The"
“Jefferson Bible, The” by Thomas Jefferson
"Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of..." by Charles Cerami
"Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American" ed. by Bernard Mayo
"Jefferson: The Virginian" by Dumas Malone
"Notes on the State of Virginia" by Thomas Jefferson
"Thomas Jefferson: American Humanist" by Karl Lehmann
"Thomas Jefferson: Scientist" by Edwin T. Martin
"Tom Jefferson: A Boy in Colonial Days" by Helen A. Monsell
"Twilight at Monticello" by Alan Pell Crawford
"Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the…" by Stephen Ambrose
"Wolf by the Ears, The: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery" by F. Thornton Miller
"Young Jefferson: 1743 - 1789, The" by Claude G. Bowers

Eh, I was sick of looking at that rant in my journal. I appreciate all your comments, and I love it that there's so many of you out there who feel the way I do about history Thank you! But you know, you don't want to leave that sort of thing up for long. So instead, here's a feature journal, with links to some of my favorite history-related deviations! ^^ I couldn't possibly feature everyone and all their deviations, so don't feel bad if you're not on here. I love all you guys!

American History

You tell them, Jefferson by --> [link]

Thomas Jefferson by --> [link]

VOTE YES by --> [link]

Alex by --> [link]

Team American: Chibi by --> [link]

Forever Divided by --> [link]

Hamilton in Pencil by --> [link]

Jefferson vs Adams by --> [link]

Thomas Jefferson - lines by --> [link]

Kiss by --> [link]

Meriwether Lewis tribute by --> [link]

Hammy vs Tommy J by --> [link]

Hamilton is not Amused by --> [link]

Fourth of July by --> [link]

English History

The Perfect Dandy by --> [link]

Oscar Wilde-HB by --> [link]

Oscar Wilde and Bosie by --> [link]

Oscar and Bosie by --> [link]

Lord Byron by --> [link]

March of the old guard by --> [link]

Prince of Paradox by --> [link]

French History

Purified with Fire by --> [link]

Joan of Arc receiving Light by --> [link]

A French Dame by --> [link]

a lady with a fan by --> [link]

Marie - Antoinette by --> [link]

Marie Antoinette by --> [link]

Joan D'Arc by --> [link]

Le Comte Jaques Du St. Germain by --> [link]

Bonaparte by --> [link]

Other

Anna of Austria by --> [link]

Percy Bysshe Shelley by --> [link]

Mary Shelley by --> [link]

Antony and Cleopatra by --> [link]

.: Mozart plz :. by --> [link]

.: Dante Plz :. by --> [link]

As you see. by --> [link]

This was a conversation between me on Facebook and a gentleman who is an acquaintance of my ex-boyfriend (who I am still friends with). Before you read, know this now, I am clearly passionate about history, and I will admit proudly that I DO NOT like it at all when someone says "history is pointless", "history is useless", "who cares about dead people" and honestly if you truly believe that, I can never be friends with you. Call it "hardcore", I don't care, I think history is very important and I will defend it as a worthwhile subject. The person I was against will remain anonymous.

Ex-boyfriend's status: " is flabbergasted at non-engineering majors who think they have hard classes."

Me: yeah puppy, I'd like to see you last in Hist 299 or 485 lol!

Anonymous: If you're going into engineering with very little actual background in the subjects then its even harder yet. but on top of that, most of the math/comp professors here are so full of themselves that they can't even begin to enlighten us on what we need to know.Also i keep taking random classes from other majors & so far, all my "electives" have been cakewalks lol

Me: "Well how hard a class is also depends on what your school and your teachers demand and expect from you, how high their standards are, etc. I've had cakewalks as well from other majors, but that doesn't lead me to believe that the major are easier than history."

Anonymous: "every semester our classes change. all of them. technology changes by the hour & our classes by the semester. history doesn't change. that's why its called history. some books are rewritten and yes, keeping up to date on history requires new text most likely every semester too."

Me: "History certainly does change, new things are being found and learned, and what we thought was true before isn't now. We thought Troy was a myth until we dug it up, and we thought Napoleon was puny until we realized that he was very tall for a Frenchman of his day. Follow "historytweeter" on Twitter and you'll see that history changes 5x a day."

Anonymous: "haha, i dont use twitter. i'm good with facebook. Technology changes thousands of times an hour! and history doesn't change. like i said, it's permenant. what we know of it constantly changes. u can argue all u want, but historical discoveries of proportion large enough to change a whole career outlook don't happen very often per decade, whereas technology well, 2 of my next-semester classes were already replaced because they were outdated by 6 months. 70% of the classes i was supposed to take were replaced since i was accepted here. oh noes, did Hitler have a secret mysterious jewish girlfriend? my computer helps cure cancer! thank you, F@H"

Me: "I honestly can't say whether or not Hitler had a mysterious Jewish girlfriend, because like I said history changes and nothing is fact for long. And what you consider to be large, influential historical discoveries is certainly relative to how you yourself view history. If you were a history major, you'd learn to appreciate these changes and see how important these changes really are. Point is, history is just as "consistent" as technology, and neither subject is superior to the other."

Anonymous: "lol but its not important to me! >_< i don't appreciate those things because they do not and will not affect my life whatsoever. the past happened and made the world what it is. i studied it in high school then i moved on. i appreciate that we won WWII, but finding out that an 80 year old german scientist reappeared yesterday wouldn't do more than catch my eye on a commercial. it doesn't matter enough to affect me therefore its unimportant to me. yes, i'm arrogant and ignorant. i know as much as i care to know about history and unless i get caught in Cash Cab, i'm pretty content with my arrogance.i'm tired of mental fisty-cups."

Me: "I wouldn't call it mental fisticuffs, I would call it healthy debating. I don't take any of this personally, and I hope you didn't either. But I wouldn't brag about that ignorance, because history is worth more in life than just winning a trivia game. I've taken many courses, and even though I do not use the information daily, I do not doubt that it is certainly worth knowing. I don't believe in "useless information". I don't think you're arrogant, but you do have my pity. I'm not saying you have to be a huge history buff, but at least acknowledge, if only for the sake of those in preservation, research, and teachers who take their time to teach it, that history is not a useless subject."

Anonymous: "i thought this conversation was over... how else can i spell arrogance? belittling me with your pity? ignorance & arrogance go hand-in-hand. i don't care. apply that to everything in our conversation. i don't care that i don't care. i'm trying to burn time before i fall asleep now. i use nearly everything i've learned in my major on a daily basis. i mean everything. it's always relevant to my day. and i still have time to go outside and ride quads, play football & shoot things. i had kickass history teachers all my life but now they're ironically all just history & memories to me lol"

Me: "Dude, I'm not trying to belittle you, but if you want to interpret it like that, well there's nothing I can do to help you there. And if you truly didn't care, then you wouldn't have memories of those classes and of what you learned, and you wouldn't have responded to any of this in the first place. Honestly, you've pulled a fallacy, which means this debate is over."

Anonymous: "i had kickass teachers, but i only remember their methods of teaching, not what they taught."

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- I'm pretty testy at this point and I wasn't taking it personally before, but he was really getting on my nerves. So I hope you'll forgive me for saying the things below.
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Me: You don't remember a single thing of what they taught? My God, and I'm going to be frank here, what a complete waste of their precious time and effort.

Anonymous: haha it wasn't waste. i liked study hall. and you could never be frank. noone is that great, except for me (his name was Frank, I'll release that much). i remember things, i just don't care. you don't listen very well.

Me: *Sigh* I meant "frank" as in the word "frank", meaning to be blunt? brutally honest? See the importance of English classes? Let me just say this, you feel you need to categorize things into "useful" and "non-useful", into "important" and "unimportant". That Frank (and I'm using your name here), is not your call to make nor is it anybody's call to make. How unenlightened you must be, to view technology as the only true thing worth studying. Goodnight.
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Learn from this kids, this is what happens if you contain yourself to one thing. You would believe yourself to be open-minded, but really, you just don't care about anything else. If one were to follow his logic, I suppose since one does not quote the Declaration of Independence everyday, it must be unimportant to know the words contained within it.
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