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 ...

Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became Americaâs Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress ...

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 ...

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.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

"Replacing facts with phony history is a linchpin ... a notorious pseudo-historian whose purported historical writings on Thomas Jefferson have been exposed as utterly fraudulent.

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