Beyond Jefferson

On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, Professor Christa Dierksheide will discuss her new book, (Yale University Press, 2024), in conversation with Professor Nicholas Guyatt of the University of Cambridge.

The event will take place in the UVA Special Collections Library auditorium. It will be free and open to the public, but registration is required. Paid parking is available nearby at the Central Grounds Parking Garage located near the UVA bookstore.

From the publisher's page: "Historian Christa Dierksheide examines the lives and experiences of a rising generation of Jefferson’s descendants, Black and white, illuminating how they redefined equality and independence in a world that was half a century removed from the American Revolution. The Hemingses and Randolphs moved beyond Jefferson and his eighteenth-century world, leveraging their own ideas and experiences in nineteenth-century Britain, China, Cuba, Mexico, and the American West to claim independence and equal rights in an imperial and slaveholding republic."

Host or Publisher John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History