At the time of George Washington’s death in 1799, the relationship between ‘Founding Brothers’ Thomas Jefferson and George Washington had disintegrated, primarily as the result of a personal letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to his former neighbor, Philip Mazzei. While the focus of the letter, penned 24 April 1796, “discussed Mazzei’s lingering business affairs in Virginia and relayed news of his old friends, a single paragraph transformed this piece of private correspondence into the notorious ‘Mazzei letter’ that plagued Jefferson for the remainder of his life,”^[3] and ultimately destroyed his collegial friendship with Washington. Students will: (1) examine the Mazzei letter and its subsequent translations into newspapers in France and the United States as a guided group activity; (2) independently research and analyze the common acquaintances, cherished peers, Enlightenment ideals and polymath lifestyles Jefferson and Washington shared; then (3) create a differentiated product using the technology of their choice (Mad Lips, Twitter, iMovie, ThingLink, et al.) inferencing/hypothesizing how the Jefferson/Washington split might (or might not)  have been mended had Washington lived beyond 14 December 1799.