History As It Happens: HAIH at Monticello, Part 2: The History Wars

The Enlightenment ideal that fundamental human equality must be the guiding principle of the new nation was, of course, not a description of reality. It was aspirational. HistoryAsItHappens podcast

This is the second in a two-part series of conversations recorded at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as History As It Happens goes on location, with special guests historian Alan Taylor and Brandon Dillard, Monticello's director of historic interpretation and audience engagement.

The"history wars" have reached Monticello. Visitors to Thomas Jefferson's old plantation in rural Virginia often bring their emotional or ideological baggage.

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