Thomas Jefferson was the architect not only of the Declaration of Independence but—in a literal rather than literary sense—of the University of Virginia and Monticello. This documentary looks at the places Jefferson designed and built to examine the originality of his thought and his astonishing achievements in a state that was then America’s frontier. (58 minutes)

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