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BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break.  The second of three trips, join me as I visit Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and DC!

Check out "How I Spent My Summer of Presidential Travels, 2023, Part 1"!

Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned:
Birthplaces
"Thomas Jefferson and Shadwell"
"William Henry Harrison and the Berkeley Plantation"
"John Tyler and Greenway Plantation"
"James Polk and Pineville"
"Zachary Taylor and Montebello"
"Woodrow Wilson and Staunton"

Homes
"Thomas Jefferson and Monticello"
"James Madison and Montpelier"
"James Monroe and Highland"
"John Tyler and Sherwood Forest"
"William Howard Taft and Washington DC"
"Woodrow Wilson and Washington DC"
"Warren Harding and Marion"
"Herbert Hoover and Palo Alto"
"Lyndon Johnson and the LBJ Ranch"
"Gerald Ford and Alexandria"
"Bill Clinton and Chappaqua"
"Barack Obama and Oahu (and Kalorama)"

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BONUS Episode featuring Presidential hauntings and ghost stories from the White House, as well as a short history of how Americans fell in love with hauntings!

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We are recapping the Presidential Homes we Visited in Season 2! I will give out Presidential Home Superlatives, including, Most Improved, Can't Wait to ReVisit, and and Best Gardens, and rank my Top FIFTEEN Favorite Homes!

Let's ring out Season 2 with this fun episode and get excited for Season 3!

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2023/09/05/season-2-episode-47-my-top-fifteen-presidential-homes-and-season-2-recap/


Check out Season 1's Birthplace Rankings and Recap!  

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BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break.  The second of three trips, join me as I visit Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, DC!

Click here for Part 1!

Links to Previous Episodes Mentioned:
Birthplaces
George Washington and Pope's Creek
Thomas Jefferson and Shadwell
James Madison and Port Conway
James Monroe and Colonial Beach
Andrew Jackson and the Waxhaws
William Henry Harrison and Berkeley Plantation
John Tyler and Greenway Plantation
James Polk and Pineville
Zachary Taylor and Montebello
Jimmy Carter and Plains

Homes
George Washington and Mount Vernon
Thomas Jefferson and Monticello
James Madison and Montpelier
James Monroe and Highland
John Tyler and Sherwood Forest
Woodrow Wilson and Washington, D.C.

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Thomas Jefferson, the "Sage of Monticello," the President most tied to his home and whose fingerprints are around every corner. Learn about Jefferson's pre-Presidency, his election and term, his family and scandals, as well as his iconic home!

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2022/03/15/season-2-episode-3-thomas-jefferson-and-monticello/   

Season 1's Thomas Jefferson Episode-"Thomas Jefferson and Shadwell"

Season 3's Thomas Jefferson Episode-"Thomas Jefferson's Tomb"  

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Season 2 is dominated by iconic Presidential Homes, many of which were built and operated using enslaved labor. What are we talking about when we discuss Presidents as slaveholders? How do sites interpret Presidents and a Plantations' past?

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2022/02/24/special-bonus-slavery-and-the-presidents/  

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Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. She's the author of six books, including The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Peter Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. He's also author of numerous books, including most recently Statehood and Union: A History of the Northwest Ordinance. 

In 2017, these two giants in the history of the early American republic teamed up to publish the book at the heart of our discussion today, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. This book ranks among the most original and engaging studies of Thomas Jefferson and his times to appear in recent years. They join us today to discuss our third President, his life and times.

BONUS episode featuring my summer of presidential travels as I fit in as many birthplaces, gravesites, homes, and other sites into one history professor's summer break. The second of two parts, join me as I drive through North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and Vermont!
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Joshua B. Hoe interviews Clint Smith about his book "How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With The History of Slavery Across America"

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"Thomas Jefferson, Lover of Liberty, was born"...where? Come visit Thomas Jefferson's birthplace in Shadwell, Virginia, as we understand his birth, childhood, family life, and formative years, as well as what happened to his site!

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Episode Page: https://visitingthepresidents.com/2021/02/02/episode-3-thomas-jefferson-and-shadwell/

Season 2's Thomas Jefferson Episode: "Thomas Jefferson and Monticello"

Season 3's Thomas Jefferson Episode: "Thomas Jefferson's Tomb"

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Examining the burial spots of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who died on the same day, July 4, 1826 the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The graves of the 2nd and 3rd presidents reveal important cultural information about the emerging differences in Northern versus Southern burial practices in the United States. 

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In this episode learn how a trip to the Oregon Coast quickly turned into a business trip to Washington DC for Darren. Paige decided to join him so they could have some quality time alone together. Travel log and some nice back and forth about a missed romantic trip.

Business Trips

• Plan time to be together.
• We with no kids turned into a week together.
• We had planned to spend 5 days in Oregon but Darren had a Business trip pop up and had to go to Washington DC.
• He took the opportunity to bring Paige along and spend a couple of days seeing some sites in Virginia.
• Although it was not ideal, It was time to spend together that was valuable.

Monticello and UVA

• Nice trip to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
• History about the house was interesting.
• Sally Hemmings history and the discussion that ensued.
• University of Virginia History and legacy that Jefferson left behind.
• College Town feel and cute downtown with little boutiques.

Thursday being Flexible

• Plans for Thursday were to go to downtown Washington DC where Darren had meetings and Paige was going to go to the Newseum.
• Darren saw a change to the location of his meeting and ended up going to the wrong place Reston instead of Arlington. 
• This wiped out Paiges plan to see the Newseum and Darren had to attend his meeting by phone.
• Paige changed her plans and went shopping at the local stores and boutiques, which she was planning on doing on Friday while Darren was in meetings all day long.
• Lunch with Co-workers and the benefit of meeting the people Darren is working with.

Movie Review of Yesterday

• Downpour rainstorm right before we headed to the movie.
• Thursday evening we went and saw the Movie Yesterday.

Coming Home from the Trip

• The 4-hour flight turned into a 2-hour wait on the tarmac and 4 1/2 hour flight.
• Luckily we had 3 seats for the two of us.

Funny Moment of the Week

• On our trip home we had 3 seats to ourselves but halfway through the flight, they asked us to share because someone was stuck between two very large people.

Mary Randolph wrote The Virginia Housewife Cookbook, first published in 1824. But who was she and who was in the kitchen doing the cooking? Dr. Leni Sorensen, a writer, chef, and Jefferson's Monticello resident culinary historian, joins Linda to talk about the kitchens, cooking methods, and enslaved cooks who influenced the recipes and methods of cooking in one of America's oldest printed cookbooks.

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