Below are definitions of various topics and organizations that are mentioned in the Jackson Davis database. Country Life Movement The Country Life Movement took place across the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. The movement was a widespread and eclectic mixture of rural nostalgia, a desire to make agriculture […]
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About Jackson Davis
Biography Family Pictures His Diaries J. Davis Etexts J. Davis Elementary School
Related Resources
Jackson Davis & the Lost World of Jim Crow Education by William A. Link Resources on the Internet Resources State by State Imaging & Image Databases Classroom Resources Then and Now Explanation of Topics and Organizations
Bibliography of Works Consulted
All titles held by the University of Virginia Library, except where indicated by National Union Catalog symbol: Vi: Library of Virginia ViW: College of William and Mary ViU: University of Virginia Albemarle Training School. Ayteesee. Charlottesville, Va.: Albemarle Training School, 1948. Alexander, Fred M. Education and Virginia Culture. N.p.: n.p.,1939. —. Education for the Needs […]
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The Physical Collection
MSS 3072, 3072-a, 3072-b, 3072-c The Jackson Davis Collection consists of a main body of papers, supplemented by three accretions. The main body of the collection (MSS 3072) and the first accretion (MSS 3072-a) were given to Special Collections by Helen Mansfield Lynch and Ruth Elizabeth Langhorne, Davis’ daughters, in 1948. The main body of […]
Bibliography of Sources on Jefferson and the Hemings Family
Primary Sources The Balance, and Columbian Repository. (Hudson, N.Y. : Sampson, Chittenden & Croswell, 1801-1807.) Issue for August 9, 1803 contains an article about the slander trial of Harry Croswell, and mentions Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings and James Callender. Call number: AP2 .B25 Cocke, John Hartwell. Papers of John Hartwell Cocke, 1725-1931. Cocke, a close […]
Jeffersoniana Holdings at U.Va.
Numerous items of Jeffersoniana have been contributed through institutional and individual collectors. Within the Special Collections of the University Library, these include: Tracy W. McGregor Library (MSS 38-760, 123, 564, 5622) Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature (MSS 2845, 3360, 3635, 3707, 4610, 5354,5712) Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Individual benefactors include: William A.Clark, Jr. […]
Secondary Sources and Fiction
Secondary Sources Adair, Douglass. The Jefferson scandals ([S.l. : s.n, 1960?]) Call number: E332.25 .A3 1960 also published in: Fame and the Founding Fathers (New York: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by Norton, 1974), pp. 160-91. Call number: JK155 .A32 Andrews, Tina. Sally Hemings, an American scandal […]