2016 Dan Van Haften seven minute interview on Public Radio.

2011 David Hirsch Speech at National Archives II (video).

Photograph by Rod Mackler

The grave of Mackler's first cousin (eight times removed) Mary Ball Washington, is across the street from the plaque.

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, a core American document, is a state statute drafted in the form of a six element proposition. As a result, the statute itself is the best argument for its enactment. The demarcation appears for the first time in Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason. An astounding example of Thomas Jefferson's persuasive logic.