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Thomas Jefferson Biographies
Jefferson, the Virginian (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 1)
by Dumas Malone
Jefferson and the Rights of Man (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 2)
by Dumas Malone
Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 3)
by Dumas Malone
Jefferson the President First Term, 1801-1805 (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 4)
by Dumas Malone
Jefferson the President Second Term (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 5)
by Dumas Malone
Sage of Monticello (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 6)
by Dumas Malone
Thomas Jefferson: A Life
by Willard Sterne Randall
Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) (note: contains Jefferson's autobiography)
by Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson (Editor)
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (Southern Biography Series)
by Noble E. Cunningham
Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American (note: In Jefferson's words)
by Bernard Mayo (Editor)
Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim: The Presidency, the Founding of the University and the Private Battle
by Alf J. Mapp
Jefferson: A Revealing Biography
by Page Smith
Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns (video)
Thomas Jefferson on Education
Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen
by James Gilreath (Editor)
Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) (note: contains Jefferson's "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge")
by Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson (Editor)
Mr Jefferson's University: A History
by Virginius Dabney
Sage of Monticello (Jefferson and His Time, Vol 6)
by Dumas Malone
Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim: The Presidency, the Founding of the University and the Private Battle (note: Founding of the University of Virginia)
by Alf J. Mapp
Thomas Jefferson on Science
Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science
by Silvio A. Bedini
Thomas Jefferson and the Sciences: An Original Anthology (Three Centuries of Science in America)
by I. Bernard Cohen (Editor)
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder
by Jack McLaughlin
Monticello in Measured Drawings
by William L. Beiswanger (Editor), et al
Thomas Jefferson on Human Rights
Jeffersonian Legacies
by Peter S. Onuf (Editor)
The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
by John Chester Miller
Slavery at Monticello (Monticello Monograph Series)
by Lucia Stanton
Thomas Jefferson on Religion
Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
by Thomas Jefferson, Forrest Church (Preface)
Jeffersonian Legacies
by Peter S. Onuf (Editor)
Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) (note: contains Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia," Query XVII and "A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom")
by Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson (Editor)
Thomas Jefferson on the Formation of the U.S. and its Government
Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) (note: contains Jefferson's "A Summary View of the Rights of British America")
by Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson (Editor)
What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
by James F. Simon
Account of Louisiana
by Thomas Jefferson
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
by Garry Wills
American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns: The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It
by Richard N. Rosenfeld, Edmund S. Morgan (Introduction)
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville, et al
Liberty! The American Revolution (video)
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (video)
Thomas Jefferson on Ethics, Leadership, Domestic Life, and Social Discourse
West Point: Character Leadership Education: A Book Developed from the Readings and Writings of Thomas Jefferson
by Norman Thomas Remick
Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
by Sarah Randolph
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder
by Jack McLaughlin
Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American (note: In Jefferson's words, including "My Head and My Heart" letter to Maria Cosway)
by Bernard Mayo (Editor)
Monticello in Measured Drawings
by William L. Beiswanger (Editor), et al
Jefferson's Books (Monticello Monograph Series)
by Douglas L. Wilson
Visitors to Monticello
by Merrill D. Peterson (Editor)
Thomas Jefferson on Literature
Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Second Series
by Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson's Books (Monticello Monograph Series)
by Douglas L. Wilson
Historical Fiction
Scandalmonger: A Novel
by William Safire
Jefferson: A Novel
by Max Byrd
Patsy Jefferson's Diary
by Miriam Anne Bourne
Thomas Jefferson for Children and Young Adults
Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain
by Natalie S. Bober
Thomas Jefferson and His World
by Henry Moscow
Tom Jefferson: Third President of the United States (Childhood of Famous Americans)
by Helen Albee Monsell, Kenneth Wagner (Illustrator)
Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat
by Milton Meltzer
A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson
by David A. Adler, et al
George Washington Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson (Presidents Who Dared)
by Edmund Lindop
Suggested Websites
The Jefferson Discussion Group Of Orlando
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Other Resources (Thomas Jefferson's Influence in Other Fields)
Using the Principles of Concurrent Education to Teach a Post-Secondary Engineering Program (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes (November 2022)
Concurrent Education - A New Post-Secondary Educational Model that Provides "Learning for Learning" as well as "Learning for Earning" in Rapidly Evolving Industries
such as High Tech Electronic Product Design and Assembly (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes (March 2020)
Moving Beyond Paideia - Transforming Our High Tech Educational Pipeline Into One That Focuses On "Learning For Earning," As Well As "Learning for Learning" (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes, Dr. Martin Anselm, Dr. Malar Hirudayaraj
Concurrent Education - The Basis of The Jefferson Project (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
Paper or Plastic? Choosing to Move Offshore (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
Reducing Labor Content as a Strategy to Improve Competitiveness - An Analysis that Addresses the Value of Designing for Automation and an Empirical Analysis that Exploits the Automation Using Meta Process Control (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
Electronic Product Assembly in High Labor Rate Markets - A Case Study In Exploiting the Counterweight to Low Labor Rate Competitive: Automation (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
A New Manufacturing Model for Successfully Competing in High Labor Rate Markets: How to Minimize Labor and Material, the Controllable Contributions to a High-Tech Electronic Product's Cost, and Assess a Manufacturing Region's Business Climate (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
... Like Holding the Wolf by the Ears ... - The Key to Regaining Electronic Production Market Share: Breaking Free of the Division of Labor Manufacturing Model in High Labor Cost Global Regions (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
Electronic Product Assembly in the Global Marketplace:
The Material Piece of the Competitive Puzzle (PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
Producing the Design: Designing Electronic Products in the Year 2000 and Beyond
(PDF file)
by Tom Borkes
A Statistical Approach to 0201 (English) Component Package Utilization
(PDF file)
by Tom Borkes, Scott Fortner, Lawrence Groves
Process Characterization of the 01005 (English) Component Package
(PDF file)
by Tom Borkes, Lawrence Groves
SMT Magazine - Jumping Off The Bandwagon Columns
- January 2016: Interview, Part 1
- February 2016: Interview, Part 2
- April 2016: The Importance of Being Earnest (Educated)
- May 2016: The Henry Ford Division of Labor Production Model
- June 2016: The Production Engineering Student as a Customer
- July 2016: The STEM Trap
- August 2016: Moving Beyond Paideia: Learning for Earning
- August 2016: Voices of the Industry
- September 2016: The Child is Father of the Man: Turning the Relationship Between the Electronic Product Assembly Employer and Recent Graduates Upside Down
- October 2016: Do the High Paid Managers in Your Organization Add Value ... ... And, is it Necessary to be One of Those Managers to be a Leader?
- November 2016: Is Leadership in Your Company Something You Should Worry About?
- December 2016: Toward a New Organizational Model: Replacing Insanity with Logic, Cost Effectiveness and Customer Service
- January 2017: A New Organizational Model Using Logic, Cost Effectiveness and Customer Service, Part 2
- February 2017 (Feature Article): The Shape of Things to Come
- February 2017 (Column): A New Organizational Model Using Logic, Cost Effectiveness and Customer Service, Part 3
- March 2017: A New Organizational Model Using Logic, Cost Effectiveness and Customer Service, Part 4
- June 2017: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking and Analyzing Material Cost in the Global Economy, Part 1
- July 2017: Analyzing the Cost of Material in Today's Global Economy, Part 2
- August 2017: Analyzing the Cost of Material in Today's Global Economy, Part 3
- October 2017: Analyzing Material Cost in Today's Global Economy -- Hit the "Pause" Button
- November 2017: The Proper Position to Take on Voids in Solder Joints, Part 1
