Dr. Alexander Boulton: President Thomas Jefferson and His Family

Stevenson University history professor emeritus Dr. Alexander Boulton discusses Thomas Jefferson’s relationships with some of the most important women in his life: his adolescent crush, the wife of his best friend whom he attempted to seduce, his wife, his daughters and granddaughters, the Italian painter he met in Paris, and the enslaved woman who bore six of his children. Dr. Boulton’s talk will place these relationships in the historical context of evolving ideas of gender, family, and race in the early Republic.