Maplewood at the Time of Jefferson:

Gain fascinating new insights into Thomas Jefferson, both the man and the politician at this 2:00 p.m. presentation by local resident Jan Lewis, one of the country’s foremost Jeffersonian scholars. Professor Lewis is the Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and a professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark. A specialist in colonial and early national history, she is the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia (1983) and a coeditor of An Emotional History of the United States (1998); Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (1999); and The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (2002).