Getting Jefferson Right
Subtitle: fact checking claims about our third president
Publisher: Salem Grove Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Grove City, PA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780974670614
Notes: A full-scale, newly published critique of The Jefferson Lies by David Barton is coming from Professors Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter of Grove City College, a largely conservative Christian school in Pennsylvania. Their book Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President (Salem Grove Press), argues that Barton "is guilty of taking statements and actions out of context and simplifying historical circumstances." For example, they charge that Barton, in explaining why Jefferson did not free his slaves, "seriously misrepresents or misunderstands (or both) the legal environment related to slavery." - The Gospel Coalition.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Christians, scholarship, and getting American history wrong; title: Jefferson on church and state; title: Jefferson and the Bible; title: Jefferson's religious beliefs; title: Jefferson and the University of Virginia; title: Jefferson and slavery; title: Appendix.; title: Jefferson's 1804 table of texts; title: Robert Carter's deed of emancipation; title: Selected Jefferson study resources