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Can Americans live up to Jefferson's ideals for the U.S.?
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July 26, 2026
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1:27Now PlayingAmericans need "to decide" if they can live up to the ideals Thomas Jefferson had for the United States, says historian Annette Gordon-Reed
"Are we up to this — this notion of keeping a republic?" she told PBS News' Judy Woodruff. "Do we really value the idea of science? Do we really value the idea of a multicultural society, in a place that has been, from the very beginning, full of all different types of cultures and religions, religious diversity?"
Gordon-Reed, one of the country's leading scholars on Jefferson, joined Woodruff for her series, Crossroads: America at 250.
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