Thomas Jefferson

“I am going to tell you a story about a great and erring man. It is the story of Thomas Jefferson, who, as I think you know, is one of the men to whom we owe the founding of our country. I am sure that it is a great story, and worth telling; and I am sure that I ought to tell it…”

So begins the first of five vignettes in the Thomas Jefferson series. Each story in this series is written on a two-sided sheet of paper, and is accompanied by images, illustrations, and a map. The core element of each vignette is a series of “character questions,” designed to have students think more deeply about virtue and vice in the man Thomas Jefferson.