The Early Republic
Watch: Crash Course 8, The Constitution, The Articles, and Federalism
Watch: Crash Course 9, Where US Politics Came From
Watch: Crash Course 10, Thomas Jefferson and His Democracy
Read: Kalman, Maira. “Time Wastes Too Fast.” New York Times. June 25, 2009. http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/time-wastes-too-fast/?_r=0
Read: Stockman, Farah. “Monticello is Done Avoiding Jefferson’s Relationship with Sally Hemings.” New York Times, June 16, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/sally-hemings-exhibit-monticello.html

Weekly Writing 3: What do Maira Kalman’s illustrations add to your understanding of Thomas Jefferson? What choices did the curators at Monticello make in their depictions of Sally Hemings and her relationship with Thomas Jefferson? Do you agree with their choices? Why or why not? How do the Kalman illustrations and the Stockman article add to or complicate the information in the Crash Course videos?