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SUMMARY:Thomas Jefferson Survives: Book Talk with author Frank Cogliano
DESCRIPTION:Frank Cogliano will discuss his new book (co-authored with Peter Onuf), Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours. Fifty years after signing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams reassured the nation from his deathbed, “Thomas Jefferson survives.” Unaware that Jefferson had died mere hours earlier, Adams was in a larger sense correct: Jefferson had been immortalized in the American imagination. Dissatisfied with the reductive clichés that now define Jefferson’s legacy, Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano restore the founding father to his historical context, elucidating in three essays how Jefferson’s understanding of history shaped his responses to the crises of his time, how he conceived of the physical entity that became the United States, and how he articulated a new national identity in 1776. Through their search for understanding, Onuf and Cogliano demonstrate not only why Jefferson matters, but how his wisdom can be applied today.\nFrank Cogliano is Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in the history of the American Revolution and the early United States, he is the author or editor of twelve books. In April 2026 the University of Virginia Press published The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-four Historians Reflect on the Founding which he edited. In June he and Peter S. Onuf will publish Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours with Norton/Liveright. His 2024 book: Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson and the American Republic (Harvard University Press) was a finalist for the 2025 George Washington Prize. Along with Patrick Griffin, Christa Dierksheide and Eliga Gould he edits the Revolutionary Age series for the University of Virginia Press. He co-hosts the American history podcast The Whiskey Rebellion and makes regular media appearances, commenting on U.S. history, politics and international relations, for the BBC and other outlets.\n
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