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encyclopediavirginia: “We Americans make a great mistake in idolizing … and making symbols of authentic figures,” the historian Gordon Wood has written, “who cannot and should not be ripped out of their time and place.” That is easier said than done at the University of Virginia, where, as the photograph above suggests, Jefferson is quite literally held up as a symbol of courage—of everything that is right with the world. Read more.

encyclopediavirginia:

“We Americans make a great mistake in idolizing … and making symbols of authentic figures,” the historian Gordon Wood has written, “who cannot and should not be ripped out of their time and place.”

That is easier said than done at the University of Virginia, where, as the photograph above suggests, Jefferson is quite literally held up as a symbol of courage—of everything that is right with the world.

Read more.