Bonus: Behind the Scenes of the Adams-Jefferson Letters

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

Earlyrepublic, History, Benfranklin, Society & Culture, Warforindependence, Earlyamericanrepublic, Earlyamericanhistory, Education, Colonialamerica, Americanrevolution, Ushistory, Benjaminfranklin

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🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In 1959, the Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press published Lester J. Cappon’s The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John and Abigail Adams. It was the first time that all 380 letters between Jefferson and the Adamses appeared in a single volume.

Why did Lester Cappon and the Omohundro Institute undertake this great project? And how did they put together this important documentary edition?

Karin Wulf, Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, takes us behind-the-scenes of The Adams-Jefferson Letters and its publication.

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's World is a production of the
0:02.5	O'Mohandro Institute.
0:04.0	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,
0:07.5	podcast about early American history with Liz Covert.
0:11.5	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can
0:15.2	affect the better future. Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people
0:20.3	and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world. And now, people and
0:24.2	now here's your host Liz Koval.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of Ben Franklin's world.
0:31.6	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people
0:35.8	and events of our early American past have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:40.3	A lot of research and preparation goes into making each episode of Ben Franklin's world.
0:45.0	And in this respect, episode 193 was no different.
0:49.0	That's the episode I called Partisans,
0:51.0	the friendship and rivalry of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
0:55.0	Now episode 193 came about because you asked me for an episode about the relationship
1:00.3	between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
1:03.0	So as I said to work thinking about how I might cover this topic, I had a few ideas.
1:08.0	One option could have been to seek out an interview with one of the many historians who has written about this relationship.
1:14.3	It's a tried and true technique and when I use all the time here on this show.
1:18.9	But a chance meeting while I stood in my O'Mohandro Institute office presented me with a different option.
1:25.3	So one of the interesting things about my OI office is that it contains extra copies of all the
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