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The Response of Merrill Peterson, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, to the Fawn M. Brodie Thesis on the Thomas Jefferson - Sally Hemings Axis
Peterson cites evidence that he believes refutes Fawn Brodie's thesis that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Heming's children.
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and Jefferson's powerful role in shaping America, he simultaneously tells the story of nation coming into being.
You Are the Eyes of the World
Just as the images on television are nothing more than light, so are our experiences merely the dance of awareness. Often we form attachments to or feel enslaved by these experiences. But they are only reflections. As easily as television pictures vanish when the channel is changed, the power of our experiences fades if we penetrate to the heart of reality—the light of the natural mind within everyone. You Are the Eyes of the World presents a method for discovering awareness everywhere, all the time. This book does not discuss how to turn ordinary life off, and it does not describe how to create beautiful spiritual experiences; it shows how to live within the source of all life, the unified field where experience takes place.
The Journals and Recollections of H. Merrill (Bud) Peterson, 1900-1987
Biography of H. Merrill (Bud) Peterson in excerpts from his journal, with added poetry and "Bud's final years" written by Rebecca Peterson, his wife, and "memories of Mary Jane Boyden Peterson" by Ruth Peterson Smith, his sister. Mentions the Depression, various automobiles, including his Model-T Ford, activities in the Mormon Church, the Utah State Agricultural College, his businesses, efforts to clean up pollution in the Logan and Bear River area in 1952-1962, his rock-hunting and artifact hunting, and his family.
Lincoln in American Memory
Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place...
The Jefferson Image in the American Mind
Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson shows how the public attitude toward Jefferson has always paralleled the political climate of the time; the complexities of the man, his thoughts, and his deeds being viewed only in fragments by later generations. He explains how the ideas of Jefferson have been distorted, defended, pilloried, or used by virtually every leading politician, historian, and intellectual. Through most of our history, political parties have engaged in an ideological tug-of-war to see who would wear "the mantle of Jefferson."
Visitors to Monticello
During the lifetime of Thomas Jefferson, through its days of vandalism and neglect, and to its final restoration, Monticello, the historic home of Jefferson, has lured thousands of visitors.
"Starving Armenians"
Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenians, a minority in the Ottoman Empire, died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert. Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Armenia's eventual absorption into the Soviet Union.
Pacific Northwest Insects
This field guide sets a new standard for insect identification, making it an indispensable resource to naturalists, educators, gardeners, and others. Engaging and accessible, Pacific Northwest Insects features detailed species accounts, each with a vivid photograph of a living adult, along with information for distinguishing similar species, allowing the reader to identify more than 3,000 species found from southern British Columbia to northern California and as far east as Montana. The book features most of the commonly encountered insects, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, and kin in the Pacific Northwest, as well as representatives of an amazing variety of unusual and interestin...
Afterword
In what is probably the script for a talk, Merrill Peterson discusses his career and research since the publication in 1960 of his book The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, 1826-1861. Although much of Peterson's career centered on Jefferson, he also wrote on Abraham Lincoln among other early influencers.
