Thomas Jefferson

The Confederacy: Do Watcha Wanna… Or Not

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - What if the Confederacy had been left on it's own? What direction would it have taken? There's too many possible outcomes to count here... and they aren't all sunshine and roses. One possibility is the GRADUAL elimination of slavery in the south because many European countries wouldn't trade with them until they got rid of it, and would've given way to mechanized […]

February 12, 2013 21

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 6 February 2013

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in history in 1756, that of Aaron Burr.

February 6, 2013 2

Interviews

Kevin Gutzman Interview – James Madison, Rand Paul, and much more…

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - James Madison and the Making of America is out in paperback today. The author, of course, the one and only Kevin Gutzman, is on the Dude Maker Hotline with us. Check out today's transcript for the rest...

February 6, 2013 5

Transcripts

Thomas Jefferson Gives Foreign Policy Advice to Rand Paul

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The Monroe Doctrine is delivered in the state of the union address December 3, 1823. In October of 1823, President James Monroe is still wrestling with what he ought to do. See if you think anything remotely like this happens among our “statesmen” today. Check out today's transcript for the rest...

January 30, 2013 1

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 30 January 2013

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1815, President Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating money to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library.

January 30, 2013

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 29 January 2013

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1861, Kansas became the 34th state to join the Union.

January 29, 2013 1

Transcripts

Government Out Of Scale – What Would Jefferson Do?

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - What would Jefferson then say about how we’re so far out of scale today? What we mean by scale is you can’t have representation when your representative represents 709,000 people. That’s just a pipedream. What would Jefferson and company then do if they were going to try and arrest this evil that we all seem possessed of? My wager is that they would look […]

January 22, 2013 1

Founders Television

The Jefferson Inauguration… Much Different From Obama’s

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - Things were a little different when Thomas Jefferson became president of the United States... there was no motorcade with limos, no 10-inch thick bulletproof glass, no Beyoncé singing the national anthem, not even any microphones. But what TJ's inauguration did have was the spirit of Independence and Liberty. Jefferson walked right up to the Capitol building dressed as "a plain citizen without […]

January 22, 2013

Transcripts

Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural Address – Part II

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - How many of you American exceptionalists now don’t like TJ now that you've heard his Inaugural Address? Jefferson was out there saying peace and commerce with all nations, entangling alliances with none. Isn’t Jefferson the one who wanted war with Tripoli? Didn’t he single-handedly call up the Marines and wage war against the Bashar of Tripoli? I was told, incorrectly of course, by some of […]

January 21, 2013