Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of ...

The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans’ daily lives as farmers and enslavers Sara Georgini ...

The Age of Experiments/The Pursuit of Happiness” Friday, February 7 at 9:00 pm In part two: Jefferson was responsible... Read More ...

Thomas Jefferson first came to Williamsburg to attend William & Mary in March 1760. Until April 1762, Jefferson lodged and boarded in the building known today as the Sir Christopher Wren Building. He ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...

James Madison suggested the idea of developing a congressional library at the new capital Washington City. Before that, the ...

After all, amid a plethora of social media misinformation, we now live in a country where nearly half our voters voted for a ...

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson. Both men were ... gives the reader a thorough analysis of the facts and the law at issue in Marbury.

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

There is no proof Jefferson ever said it, according to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which has a page on its website dedicated to correcting this notion, a Voice of America reporter noted on X.