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List of Martha Jefferson's Schoolmates at the Abbaye Royale de PanthemontOn July 5, 1784, Patsy and her father finally left for Europe, accompanied by James Hemings, a Monticello slave and likely the mixed-race son of Patsy’s maternal grandfather. Arriving in Paris in August, Patsy soon entered the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont, a prestigious convent boarding school that educated mainly daughters of Catholic aristocrats. Largely because of her schooldays at the Panthemont, Martha considered the years she spent in Paris the “brightest part” of her life. A gregarious adolescent who liked j...

SUMMARY Sally Cottrell was an enslaved maid and seamstress. Born sometime around 1800, she served as a maid to Ellen Wayles Randolph at Monticello from 1809 until 1824, after which Randolph married and moved to Boston. Cottrell was then hired out to a University of Virginia professor, who later purchased her with the intention of freeing her. It is unclear whether Cottrell was ever officially freed, but by early 1828 she was working on her own as a seamstress. She was baptized in Charlottesville in 1841, married in 1846, and died in 1875. She had no children. Cottrell was born enslaved somet...

environmental protection agency. if you're a rancher you're being put upon by the interior department like never before. we have private property owners under attack all over this country. we have businesses, small businesses, too, under attack in every direction, and at it getting much and much worse, and then we hear these politicians talking about you have to have skin in the game. i think, is that what we were founded for to have skin in the game? no, we were founded for them to make sure our liberty is protected. not for us to get skin in the game for the bureaucrats and politic...

there's a book that i was really fond of and circulated the pentagon called the gates of fire and one of the best historical novels about the battle where you had 300 us martin warriors defend against 100,000 or more persian soldiers coming through that gap and those 300 warriors, the spartans, they were picked not only for their courage and to devotee because they were basically capable, they were picked based upon the courage of the spartan wives, and i think about carolina. she had been with you -- >> guest: 47 years. >> host: from the very beginning, by your side or behind you at...

the little boy handed of the parachute back to the priest and said not to worry, father, the smartest man in the world just took off with my backpacked. [laughter] let me talk briefly about my new book, quote cohen in defense of thomas jefferson." thank you for coming. i really appreciate that. i believe my book once and for all proves that the saudi -- sally story is certainly not historical fact or science. in mauney view it reflects recycled in accuracy that has metastasized book to book from over 200 years. let me preface my remarks by saying i am not a professional historian lik...