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The state launched its semiquincentennial festivities Wednesday in Jefferson County, unveiling a statue of Thomas Jefferson ...
The occasion coincided with Florida getting ready to celebrate 249 years of America, just ahead of the Fourth of July.
Governor Ron DeSantis unveils a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello, kicking off a statewide initiative to honor America ...
DeSantis Highlights Jefferson's Enduring Principles of Liberty, Education, and Religious Freedom in Kickoff of America250FL ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a statue of Former President Thomas Jefferson on Wednesday morning in Monticello, Florida, to help ...
In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen.Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a ...
Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil War. A new documentary on the third U.S. president considers the ...
But what viewers of “Thomas Jefferson” will find is that its subject’s life, like that of the great country he helped establish, is inextricable from either slavery or irony.
Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Flesh and Spirit, by Thomas S. Kidd (Yale University Press, 320 pp., $30) T homas S. Kidd opens his new biography of Thomas Jefferson by relating the mass of ...
Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson’s good name in the process. The hilltop mansion designed by Jefferson himself, once preserved as a tribute to the author of the ...
Our third president, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), was not much of a public speaker – “He liked writing better than talking” – and though he participated deeply in the politics of his ...