Kevin Gutzman on the Jeffersonians, State’s Rights and “Virginia Supremacy”, and Westward Expansion
March 21, 2023
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
In This Episode:
- Kevin Gutzman, professor of History at Western Connecticut State University, joins the podcast to discuss the presidencies of Democratic-Republican presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe
- how the states and sectionalism played an important role in the Early Republic, and why Jefferson and his successors emphasized the importance of state’s rights and decentralized power
- the key events during the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe that kick off Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny
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