A BIOGRAPHY, other things being equal, is like laughter. He who biographs last usually does it best. I believe the word should be biographize, but that has an awkward sound in a sentence ...
Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of ...
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 ...
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson ... in which Jefferson played a leading role.) Jefferson probably considered Adams oddly self-destructive in public life, a man who was too honest for his own ...
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 ...
The Age of Experiments/The Pursuit of Happiness” Friday, February 7 at 9:00 pm In part two: Jefferson was responsible... Read More ...
After his reelection, Johnson recited a prayer that he suggested was written by Thomas Jefferson and recited every day in the House during Jefferson’s presidency. Johnson’s prayer, which he ...