Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 5/15/2012
Students can explore each page of the bible, read translations, and view short videos about the bible’s history and conservation. This volume, created by Thomas Jefferson in 1820, is an 84-page assemblage of passages from the first four books of the New Testament, a project undertaken by Jefferson personally to better understand Jesus' moral teachings.
Multimedia instruction
Adams, John, analysis, 1800s, artifact, museum work, jefferson, thomas, religion, museum, material culture, conservation, book, Smithsonian, innovation, nineteenth century, primary source, invention, object based learning, History, object, Christianity
A fictionalized exchange of letters between a little girl and Thomas Jefferson accounts events of...
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