A
A&E Biography, 12
abolition movement
Quakers in, 172
societies, 88
abolition of slavery by states, 101
absolute truth, xxi
absolutes, Poststructuralism rejection of, 18, 197
Academic Collectivism, xxii–xxiii, 36, 77, 149, 198
definition of history and, 210
on Jefferson as racist, 96
Adams, Abigail, Jefferson letter to, 27
Adams, Dickinson, 73
Adams, John
Callender and, 23
church attendance, 143
funding for Bible printing, 68
on Hume, 37
Jefferson as vice president, 133
Jefferson’s communication with, 78, 179, 183, 185
presidential election of 1800, 143–144
views on federal power, 142
views on Missouri Compromise, 107
Adams, John Quincy, xii, 109–110, 186
on Hume, 37
Adler, Cyrus, 81
African Americans. See blacks
Age of Corruption, 119
Age of Purity, 119
Age of Reformation, 119
Allegheny v. ACLU (1989), 137
Allen, Richard, 88
American Exceptionalism, xix–xx
American Revolution, clergy threat of Hell for helping patriots, 159
American Unitarian Association, 185
Anglican Church, 120
disestablished in Virginia, 46, 149, 156
Jefferson as vestryman, 168
universities founded by, 45
Anti-Federalists (Republicans), 142
Callender as, 16
antislavery laws in colonies, king’s veto, 100
antislavery views
in Declaration of Independence draft, 101
of Declaration signers, xi
Jefferson correspondence on, 105–106
Three-Fifths clause and, 86
Apocalypse, Jefferson on, 181
apologetics, 60
contemporary Christian, 65
Jefferson instruction on, 59
Aristides, 74
Armenian view, vs. Calvinistic, 173
Jefferson on, 191
Augustine (saint), 235n50
Austin, David, 158
B
Bacon, Francis, 38
writings, 39
Balch, Stephen, 158
Bancroft, George, xiv
Banneker, Benjamin, 94–95, 112
Baptist Association of Danbury, Connecticut, 123–125
Baptists, 45, 122–123, 171, 173–174
Separate, 172
Barger, Herbert, 10
Barlow, Joel, Jefferson letter to, 98–99
Barrow, David, 91
Jefferson correspondence with, 106–107
Bausman, John, 158
on Jefferson’s anticlericalism, 158
Bennet, William, 71
bias, 201
from exclusion, 200
Bible
emphasis on Gospels over other parts, 179–182
as gifts from Jefferson, 68
Jefferson and, 194
Jefferson’s advice to Carr, 62
Jefferson’s help with printing finance, 68, 194
Jefferson’s ownership, 69
separation of church and state in, 119
specific language and anti-trinitarianism, 184–185
Bible references
Exodus 2, 119
Chronicles II:26, 119
Isaiah 46:9, 206
Acts 17:11, 209
Acts 20:27, 208
Romans 12:21, 199
Romans 15:4, 206
Corinthians I:10, 206
Corinthians II 2:11, 199
Hebrews 10:32, 206
Timothy II 2:15, 208
Revelation, Jefferson’s opinion on, 180
bible studies, in homeless shelter, vii
biographies
online availability, 207
Blackburn, Gideon, 43
blacks
claims of inferiority of, 96–97
in colonial South, 89
impact of conditions on intellectual abilities, 97–98
roles in colonial North, 88
treatment, 3
Blackstone, William, 37
Commentaries on the Laws of England, 34–35
Book of Common Prayer, 33
Boston Port Bill, 130
prayer in support of, 153
Boston Tea Party, 130
Bowers, Claude G., 148
Brattle, Thomas, xvii
Brennan, William, 137
Brent, Robert, 43
Broaddus, John, 57
Brown University, 45
Brubacher, John, 32
Bryan, Andrew, 88
Buffon, Georges Comte de, 212–213
Burns, Ken, xv
C
Caleb, 199
anger against Jefferson, 20–21
charges against Jefferson, 21
correspondence with Madison, 17
drowning death, 21
errors in allegations, 22
historians’ assessment, 24
Jefferson’s attitude on, 18
Calvin, John, 42
Calvinism
vs. Armenian view, 173
Jefferson rejection of, 182–183
Restorationists and, 177
Calvinistic Reformed Church, Jefferson support of, 153–154
Campbell, Alexander, 177
Cane Ridge revival, 174
capitalization in colonial writing, x
Carr, Peter, Jefferson’s letter to, 57–58, 61–64
Cato, 74
Cavender, Thomas, 158
Channing, William Ellery, 185
chaplains, on University of Virginia campus, 54–57
Charen, Mona, 10
Charlottesville, VA, worship, 179
Chase-Riboud, Barbara, 3
Chastellux, Marquis de, xii
Cherokees, missionary school for, 43, 135
Cheswill, Wentworth, 88
Chinese students, xiii
Christian Association, 175
Christian Church, 189
Christian Connection, 175
Christian Primitivist Movement, 174
Christian thinkers, Founding Fathers reliance on, 37
Christian unity, Jefferson on, 178–179
Christianity
historical periods, 119
Jefferson on, 134–135, 166–167
Jefferson on Locke’s system, 41
Jefferson’s study of movements, 235n50
Locke as theologian, 40
radical call to primitive form, 174–175
University of Virginia and, 31
churches
Dissenting (non-Anglican), 172
Jefferson’s financial support, 158
North vs. South, 143
in Virginia, decline, 173
Churches of Christ, 189
influence of sermons on Jefferson, 155
Jefferson letter of commendation for, 154
clergymen
Jefferson and, 195
Jefferson’s financial support of, 158
support for Jefferson, 149–153
Cline, Austin, 141
Clinton, Bill, impeachment proceedings, 1–3
clockmaker theory of God, 191
Coles, Edward, 105
Collectivism, Academic, xxii–xxiii, 36, 77, 149, 198
definition of history and, 210
on Jefferson as racist, 96
College of Charleston, 45
College of Rhode Island, 45
College of William and Mary, 33, 34, 45
Peter Carr acceptance to, 58
commas, in colonial writing, x
Commentaries on the Laws of England (Blackstone), 34–35
Common Place-Book to the Holy Bible (Locke), 40
common sense, philosophy and, 34
Condorcet, Marquis de, 98
Jefferson letter to, 95
Congregationalists, universities founded by, 45
Congress. See U. S. Congress
Connecticut, abolition of slavery in, 101
conscience, 65
consensual sex, 3
context of history, 197, 207–208
Continental Congress, Jefferson’s provision to end slavery in territories, 102
Coolidge, Calvin, 215
Cooper, Thomas, 52
cooperation, interdenominational, 46, 171, 173, 187
Cornett, Daryl, 31
Corruption, Age of, 119
Coutts, W., 158
Creationist view of Newton, 40
Curtis, William Eleroy, xv
Cutler, Manasseh, 133, 151–152
Czechoslovakia, xiii
D
Dabney, Robert, 57
Danbury, Connecticut Baptist Association, 123–125
Darrow, Clarence, 204
Dartmouth, 45
De Interpretatione Naturae Prooemium (Bacon), 38–39
Dearborn, Henry, 43
Declaration of Independence
acknowledgments of God in, 131
Jefferson’s assertion on, 36–37
Scottish Common Sense philosophy and, 35
Deconstructionism, xvi–xviii, 77, 149, 162, 196
definition of history and, 209
deists, 191
Jefferson’s language and, 155
Locke as, 40
Democratic-Republicans, 142
denominational nonpreferentialism, 178, 194
as University of Virginia goal, 48–51, 56
denominations, Jefferson’s views of conflict from, 179
Dissenting (non-Anglican) churches, 172
Divine Providence, 35
news articles on Jefferson and Hemings, 6–7
retraction of story about Jefferson and
documentation
need for verifiable, 15
primary source, vs. modern experts, 209
Douglass, Frederick, 87, 111–112
Douglass, William, 33
Dow, Lorenzo, 156
Dowse, Edward, 71
Dreisbach, Daniel, 207
Dunglison, Robley, 51
Dutch Reformed, 45
E
Early, John, 172
Eliot Bible, 69
Elizabeth I (Queen of England), 121
Elliott, Robert, 44
Ellis, Edward, xv
Elson, Henry William, xv
emancipation, 89
Jefferson as advocate, 94, 194–195
Jefferson’s actions and writings on, 99
Jefferson’s bill emancipating all slaves born after act passage, 101
Emancipation Proclamation, 111
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 185
Emmons, Nathanael, opposition to Jefferson, 147–148
end times, Jefferson opinion on, 181
English, teaching methods, 205
Enlightenment
Christian vs. secular viewpoint, 37
European, and Jefferson’s thinking, 36
Epistles of Paul, de-emphasizing, 179–182
equality, Jefferson’s actions and writings on, 99
establishment clause, in First Amendment, 122
Estabrook, Prince, 88
ethics, professorships with responsibility for religious teaching, 49
European Enlightenment, and Jefferson’s thinking, 36
European witch trials, xvii–xviii
Everson v. Board of Education (1947), 127
evolution, 204
Exceptionalism, American, xix–xx
experts, challenging claims, 208
Eyerman, Jacob, 158
F
Fabricius, Johann Albert, 63, 64
faith of Jefferson
grandson’s report on religious beliefs, 191–192
impact of family deaths on, 170
Jefferson’s reluctance to discuss, 187–188
Malone on difficulty in analyzing orthodoxy of, 190
Farjon, Therese, 43
fasting and prayer, Jefferson’s call for public day of, 130
federal power, disagreements over level, 142
“federal ratio,” 86
Federalism, Jefferson’s views of, 137–138
Federalists, 142
Callender attack on, 16
feminist movement, 3
Few, William, 89
Fiske, John, xv
Fontaine, James, Jefferson letter of commendation for, 154
Foster, Eugene, on DNA testing limitations, 12
foundational concepts, rejection, xviii
Founding Fathers
as racists, xi
reliance on Christian thinkers, 37
secular government as goal, xxii–xxiii
France, Jefferson in, 4, 103, 169, 212
Fredericksville Parish Church (Anglican), 33
Frothingham, Richard, xiv
Fry, Henry, 171
G
Galloway, Charles, 119–120, 121
Garnet, Henry Highland, 112
Gee, Henry, 2
Geneva Academy, 42
Geneva Bible, 69
geographical regions
differences, 88
J efferson on distinctions, 90–91
Glendye, Rev. Mr., Jefferson letter of praise for, 154
Gnostic Gospels, 64
God, 65
and history, 206
Jefferson’s belief in, 60, 166
Jefferson’s letter to Carr on questioning
in Scottish Common Sense philosophy, 34
The Godless Constitution (Kramnick and Moore), xxii
Gorbachev, Mikhail, xiii
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 3, 14–15
Gospel Shelters for Women, vii
Gospels
abridgement of, 72
government, secular, as Founding Fathers’ goal, xxii–xxiii
governor of Virginia, Jefferson’s call for prayer, 139
Graham, Pearl, 11
Gregoire, Henri, 98
Gwatkin, Reverend Mr., 130
H
Hamilton, Alexander, 142
Hammett, William, 57
Hampden-Sydney, 45
Havel, Vaclav, xiii
Haynes, Lemuel, 88
Healey, Robert, 65
Hemings, Eston, 5
DNA testing, 14
paternity alternatives, 9
Hemings, Madison, 14
Hemings, Sally
background, 4
children of, 221n14
DNA evidence of relationship with Jefferson, 6–13
early printed charges of Jefferson’s paternity, 16–20
evidence against Jefferson’s relationship, 5
Jefferson’s relationship, 5
Henry VIII (King of England), 120
Hercules, Thomas, 88
heroes
Deconstruction of, xvii
historical malpractice, recognizing and avoiding traps, 199
historical meanings, xviii
history
decline in knowledge of, 196
definition, 209
examination free from agendas, 210
personal interpretations in Poststructuralism, 202–203
published scope and sequence of standards for states, 257n16
truth in sharing, 201
value of study, 205
Holt, John Rice, 173
homeless shelter, bible studies, vii
Hooker, Richard, 120
Hooper, William, 89
Humanity, universal religion of, 186
Jefferson’s views on, 38
humor of Jefferson, 214
Humphreys, David, 23
Hunt, Gaillard, 33
Hutson, James, 207
I
Illinois, as antislavery state, 103, 105
illiteracy, historical, 204
In Search of Christian America, 209
Indiana, as antislavery state, 103, 105
Indians
Jefferson’s writings about Jesus for, 70
missionary school for Cherokees, 43, 135
individuality, 202
inductive thinking, 38
institutions, Deconstruction of, xvii
intellectual abilities of blacks, impact of conditions, 97–98
interdenominational cooperation, 46, 173
Unitarian emphasis on, 187
in Virginia, 171
Iredell, James, 35
Irvin, William, 157
J
Janicek, Zdenek, xiii
Jarratt, Devereaux, 171
Jefferson, Field, 9
Jefferson, Isaac, Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, 11
Jefferson, Jane, 4
Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth I, 4
Jefferson, Lucy Elizabeth II, 4
Jefferson, Martha (“Patsy,” daughter), 4, 11–12, 170, 181
on Jefferson grief at wife’s death, 169
Jefferson, Martha (wife), 168
Jefferson, Mary (“Maria,” “Polly”), 4
death, 170
Jefferson, Randolph (brother of Tom), as likely father of Hemings children, 10–12
Jefferson, Thomas
as advocate for emancipation, 94
as ambassador to France, 4, 103, 169, 212
attitude toward Callender, 18
avoidance of negatives, 200
background, 33
cash shortage, 93
concerns over Missouri Compromise, 107–108
daughters, 4
Federalist criticism, 144, 145–147
financial records and church support, 158
granddaughter’s description, 213–214
grandson’s description, 200, 214
languages known, 79
letters by, 167
on moral teachings of Jesus, 78
non-participation in Constitution framing, 117–118
personal attacks against, 25
presidential election of 1800, 143–144
private life, 213
as Secretary of State, 142
as slave owner, 91
spiritual change in life, 167–168
titles of honor, xi
as vice president, 17
as visionary, xii
Jefferson Reorganization, 46
Jeroboam, 147
Jesus
Jefferson’s 1804 work about, 70, 72
Jefferson’s advice to Carr, 62–63
Jefferson’s writings on, 178
and the Trinity, 175
Jewish World Review, 13
Joshua, 199
K
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 111
Kaskaskia tribe, treaty with, 71–72, 135
Kennedy, Anthony, 137
Kentucky Abolition Society, 91, 106
Kentucky Resolution of 1798, 124
King, Martin Luther Jr., 112
Kings College, 45
Kosinski, Jerzy, xiii
Kozyrev, Andrei, xiv
Kramnick, Isaac, The Godless Constitution, xxii
L
Lacey, John, 81
Lafayette, Marquis de, xii, 108
Latin Bible, 69
Laurens, John, 89
Bible and, 62
Lee, Henry, 23
Leland, John
on black involvement in Awakening, 172
financial support from Jefferson, 158
giant cheese gift for Jefferson, 150–151
on priestcraft, 159
support for Jefferson, 149–150
Lewis, Jan, 15
Libertines, 60
liberty, xiii
Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (Jefferson), 74–82
congressional resolution for government printing, 81
presentation to senators and representatives at swearing in, 82
Lincoln, Levi, 187
Lossing, Benson, xiv
Louisiana Territory
Christian school, 135
purchase, 43
M
Callender correspondence to, 17
Callender’s accusations against, 23
on Hume, 37
meeting with Callender, 19
record of Christian theological writings, 53–54
Callender description by, 24
on faith of Jefferson, 190
on personal attacks of Jefferson, 25
Marine Band, at Capitol worship, 134
marriage, Jefferson’s bill for protecting, 132
Marsden, George, 33
Marsh v. Chambers (1983), 137
Marshall, Thurgood, 137
Martin, Benjamin Ellis, 24
Martin, Luther, 87
Massachusetts
abolition of slavery in, 101
witch trials, xvii–xviii, 218n34
math instruction, 205
Mather, Increase, xvii
Maury, James Fontaine, 33
Maury, Matthew, 158
May, Samuel, 186
Mayer, David, 2
Mayflower Compact of 1620, ix
McCormick, Andrew, 158
McCullough, David, 207
Memoirs of a Monticello Slave (Isaac Jefferson), 11
Memoirs of His Life (Jefferson), 110
Methodists, xx
“Republican Methodists,” 152
traveling clergy, 156
in Virginia, 171
Meunier, Louis Dominique de, 103
Michigan, as antislavery state, 103
Middle colonies, racial views, 89
Miller, John C., 24
Minimalism, xxi–xxii, 74, 77, 149, 162, 197–198
definition of history and, 210
Minnesota, as antislavery state, 103
miracles, in Jefferson’s writings about Jesus, 73, 80
missionary efforts to Indians, Jefferson and, 71–72, 135
Missouri Compromise, 111
and slavery expansion, 107
Modernism, xx–xxi, 74, 76, 142, 197
definition of history and, 210
monarchy, clergy support for, 160
money devaluation, and Jefferson cash shortage, 93
Monroe, James, 17
Jefferson’s letter on Callender, 26–27
Montesquieu, Charles, 37
Moore, Jeremiah, 157
Jefferson communication with, 162–163
Moore, Laurence, The Godless Constitution, xxii
moral teachings
of Jesus, Jefferson on, 78
Unitarian emphasis on, 186
Morris, Gouverneur, 135
N
Nashoba, Tennessee, 108
Bible and, 62
Negro President (Wills), 85–86
Nelson, Thomas, 33
New England
clergy opposition to Jefferson, 149
religious freedom vs. state-established denomination, 156–157
New Hampshire, abolition of slavery in, 101
New Jersey, abolition of slavery in, 101
New York, abolition of slavery in, 101
Newton, Isaac, 38
“No Child Left Behind,” 204
North vs. South, Jefferson’s observations, 142–143
Northern colonies
Jefferson’s description, 90–91
roles of blacks in, 88
Northwest Ordinance, antislavery
proposal in, 103
Northwest Territory, slavery banned from, 107
Notes on Religion (Jefferson), 168
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 96–97, 99, 102
O
Ocellus, 74
Ohio, as antislavery state, 103, 105
O’Kelly, James, 152, 174, 175, 176, 188–189
Old Testament
Jefferson’s views of, 182
Onuf, Peter, 15
original source materials. See primary source documentation
Otto III (Roman Emperor), 120
oversimplification, xxi, 197–198
P
Padover, Saul, 149
Paine, Thomas, 209
Parker, Theodore, 185
passion, 201
past, understanding, 203
as corruptor of Jesus’ teachings, 180
PBS Frontline, 12
peer review, 198
Penn, William, 121
Pennsylvania, abolition of slavery in, 101
The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth
Jefferson’s description, 79
Pilgrims, 121
Poland, xiii
political parties, 142
The Political Progress of Great Britain (Callender), 16
political writings of Jefferson, religious terms in, 155
Poststructuralism, xviii–xix, 197
definition of history and, 209–210
Powell, Colin, 112
powers reserved to states, 138
practical Christianity, 171
prayer, 191
absence of national proclamations by Jefferson, 137–138
Jefferson’s call for public day of, 130, 132
Jefferson denunciation of, 182–183
presidential documents, Jefferson’s closing for, 136
presidential election of 1800, 143–144
Presidents
federal prayer proclamations, 139
sexual indiscretions, 2
Review of the Principal Questions in Morals, 75
Priestly, Joseph, 119
primary source documentation, xxiii, 207
vs. modern experts, 209
Primitivism
Jefferson’s writings on, 177–178
rejection of church practices, 176
Principia (Newton), 40
Protestant Episcopal Church, Jefferson support of, 153–154
psychohistory, 27
public arena, religious expressions in, 130
Purity, Age of, 119
Q
Quakers, 171
in abolition movement, 172
Queens College, 45
R
racism, in Southern colonies, 88–89
Randall, Henry Stephens, 201
Randall, Willard Sterne, 30
Randolph, Edmund Jennings, 142
Randolph, Martha Jefferson, 11–12.
See also Jefferson, Martha (“Patsy,” daughter)
Randolph, Peyton, 33
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 81
Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François (Abbé), Jefferson criticism of, 38
The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures (Locke), 40
Recorder (Federalist newspaper), 20
Reformation, Age of, 119
Reid, Thomas, 34
religion, Supreme Court decisions citing Jefferson, 241n12
religious beliefs
government protection of, 125
North vs. South, 143
opinions on Jefferson’s, 165
religious careers, University of Virginia preferential treatment for those seeking, 56
religious freedom, vs. state established denomination, 156–157
religious instruction for Cherokees, 43
Jefferson support for school, 43
learning both sides, 59
at University of Virginia, 53–54
religious literature, court cases on permit to hand out, 245n69
religious privileges, government role, 123–125
representation in Congress, Three-Fifths clause and, 86
Republican Methodists, 152
Republican newspaper in Philadelphia, Callender job with, 16
Republican party, 142
Restoration Movement, 174
Jefferson and, 190
Trinitarian branch, 189
Revelation, Jefferson’s opinion on, 180
revelation, law of, 35
Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (Price), 75
Rhode Island, abolition of slavery in, 101
Rice, John Holt, 50
Roman Catholic church, Jefferson support for construction, 135
Rudy, Willis, 32
Ruffner, William H., 57
Rush, Benjamin, xii, 52, 83, 144, 156– 157, 189, 190
Rutgers University, 45
Ryland, Robert, 57
S
Sabbath, Jefferson’s bill for preserving, 131–132
St. James Church of Northern Parish (Anglican), 33
Salem, Peter, 88
Sanford, Charles, 73
“Scholars Commission,” 2
Science, 1
scientific method, 38
Scopes trial (1925), 204
Scottish Common Sense philosophy, 33, 34, 42, 61
Blackstone and, 35
scriptures. See Bible
Second Great Awakening, 156, 173, 188
A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity (Locke), 40
secular government, as Founding Fathers’ goal, xxii–xxiii
secular university, claim of University of Virginia as, 31–66
secularists
definition, 115
tendencies in history textbooks, 201
Sedgwick, Theodore, 133
Sedition Law, Callender conviction of, 17
Separate Baptists, 172
separation of church and state, vii, 115– 140, 195
claims of Jefferson as origin, 116
wall of, Jefferson and, 118–119, 125
Serious Considerations on the Election of a President (Linn), 146
Servetus, 183
sexual morality, of Jefferson, 193
sexual relations, between white masters and black slaves, 220n10
Short, William, Jefferson’s letter to, 181–182
slander, Jefferson reaction to, 25–26
slave owner, Jefferson as, xv, 91
slavery, Unitarian opposition to, 186
slaves
Constitutional Convention debate over counting in population, 86–87
Jefferson efforts for, 108
Jefferson’s bill emancipating all slaves born after act passage, 101
Jefferson’s payment for crops, 93
law banning importation, 104
representation in court by Jefferson, 100
sexual relations of masters with, 220n10
three-fifths vote, 86
Virginia bill banning importation, 101
Small, William, 33
Smith, Adam, Theory of Moral Sentiments, 75
Smith, Cotton Mather, criticism of Jefferson, 145
Smith, Edward, 57
Smith, Elias, 157, 174, 175, 184
Society of the United Brethren, 70
South America, Jefferson on political conditions, 161
South Carolina, 90
South, vs. North, Jefferson’s observations, 142–143
Southern colonies, racism, 88–89
Spafford, Horatio, 160
Spanish America, 161
spellings, modern vs. colonial, ix
states
abolition of slavery in, 101
powers reserved to, 138
stereotypes, xxi
Sullivan, John, 212
“A Summary View of the Rights of British America” (Jefferson), 100
supernatural, in Jefferson’s writings about Jesus, 80
Synod of Carthage, 64
Synopsis of the Four Evangelists (Thomson), 79
T
Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith), 75
Thomas, William H.B., 171
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (Brodie), 28
Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Gordon-Reed), 14–15
Thomson, Charles, 79
Jefferson identifying as Christian, 189
Thomson’s Bible, Jefferson’s offer of financial help, 69
three-fifths slave vote, 86
Till, Ferrill, 160
Timæus, 74
Tocqueville, Alexis de, xii
Todd, John, 157
transdenominational school, University of Virginia as, 45–46
Transylvania University, 45
Treasury Department, Sunday church services at, 134
Trinity, 175
opposition to, 184
Tripoli, U.S. treaty with, 136
truth, quest for objective, 203
Tuston, Septimus, 55
Twentieth-Century Model, 205–206
Two Treatises of Government (Locke), 40–41
U
Unitarianism
early doctrines, 185
United States
published scope and sequence of history standards for states, 257n16
recommendation for official government seal, 131
U. S. Capitol
clergy preaching at, 152
Leland as preacher at worship, 151
public worship in, 133
U. S. Congress
absence of legislative power over religious opinion, 126–127
law banning importation of slaves, 104
Three-Fifths clause and representation, 86
U. S. Constitution
Bill of Rights, 118
evolutionary belief and, 204–205
First Amendment as prohibition on
government vs. individuals, 128–130
Jefferson’s non-participation in framing, 117–118
three-fifths slave vote, 86
Allegheny v. ACLU (1989), 137
Everson v. Board of Education (1947), 127
major decisions on religion citing Jefferson, 241n12
Marsh v. Chambers (1983), 137
use of separation metaphor, 126–127
on voluntary religious activities by students, 127–128
unity, xix
universities, early characteristics, 44–45
University of Pennsylvania, 45
denominational nonpreferentialism as goal, 48–51, 56
faculty religious affiliation, 51–53
professorships of divinity, 49
religious instruction, 49, 53–54
worship on campus, 54
US News and World Report, 206
V
Vermont, abolition of slavery in, 101
vice president, Jefferson as, 17, 133
Vickers, Anita, 31
A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity (Locke), 40
A Vindication of the Religion of Mr. Jefferson (Knox), 157
Virginia
decline in churches, 173
interdenominational cooperation in, 171
Jefferson draft of state constitution, 100
Jefferson’s bills for state legislature, 131
state medal with religious motto, 132
Virginia Bible Society, 50, 68, 194
Virginia Constitution, 46
Jefferson’s views on clergy and, 162
Virginia law
bill banning importation of slaves, 101
bill for establishing general courts, 132
economic requirements for emancipating slaves, 92–93
Statute for Religious Freedom, 46, 178
Vitz, Paul C, 200
The Voice of Warning to Christians on the Ensuing Election (Mason), 146
Vyzourek, Marilyn, vii
W
wall of separation of church and state, 125
Wall Street Journal, 13
War Department, Sunday church services at, 134
War of 1812, 148
Warren, Charles, 25
Warville, Jacques Pierre de, 103
Washington, George
Callender and, 23
church attendance, 143
Scottish Common Sense philosophy and, 33
slaves emancipated by, 92
support for emancipation, 89
Washington DC
Jefferson influence on public schools, 43–44
Jefferson oversight of layout and construction, 133
Washington Post, 12
Webster, Daniel, 110
Wesley, Charles, xx
Wesley, John, xx
Whipple, Prince, 88
White House, Leland visit to, 151
White, Richard, 44
White, William, 57
Williams, Roger, 121
Wills, Garry, 30
Wilmer, Joseph, 57
Wisconsin, as antislavery state, 103
witch trials, xvii–xviii, 218n34
Witherspoon, John, 42, 59–60, 75
Wood, Billy, 157
Wood, Will, 121
Woodson, Thomas, oral tradition vs. DNA, 13
worship
in Charlottesville, VA, 179
government permission for, 172
in U. S. Capitol, 133
in U. S. Capitol, Jefferson’s attendance, 134
on University of Virginia campus, 54
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