While we generally count Thomas Jefferson’s birthday on April 13th, following the Gregorian calendar, at the time of his birth England and therefore the Americas followed the Julian calendar, marking his birth and as it reads on his tombstone, as today.
Jefferson of course looms large in our American imagination, a man of enormous flaws and astonishing genius. Between Jefferson and John Adams (of equally large pluses and minuses) the American dream is dreamt…
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