Go back to school with a course in American History and the US Constitution with Instructor Joel Marks Former Adjunct Professor at Southern Oregon University or SOU, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute OLLI, Rouge Community College RCC.   

Here are a few videos from past classes of Professor Joel Marks:   

Capitalism vs. Socialism 

Founder’s Principles & Philosophies 

Washington Creates America 

Father of the Constitution 

Born April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, Virginia; died July 4, 1826, Monticello

Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, on his father’s plantation of Shadwell located along the Rivanna River in the Piedmont region of central Virginia at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.1 His father Peter Jefferson was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother Jane Randolph a member of one of Virginia’s most distinguished families. When Jefferson was fourteen, his father died, and he inherited a sizeable estate of approximately 5,000 acres. That inheritance included the house at Shadwell, but Jefferson dreamed of living on a mountain.