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Features, Interviews, People April 10, 2021 April 10, 2021

This Week on Dispatches: Geoff Smock on the Teenage Thomas Jefferson

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews educator and JAR contributor Geoff Smock on his research into the teenage years of Thomas Jefferson,…

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Smells Like Teen Spirit: The Teenage Thomas Jefferson

by Geoff Smock

Within the pantheon of Founding Fathers, only George Washington was more impenetrable than was Thomas Jefferson—then and now. The man who would come to…

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