The film chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his pivotal role in the American Revolution and the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. It begins with Jefferson's early ...

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson ... law and both embraced the cause of American independence when the Revolution began. But while Marshall ...

What emerges instead is a fresh portrait of an iconic American political leader ... Onuf, University of Virginia "Was there a Revolution in the United States in 1800, as Thomas Jefferson claimed? In ...

Thomas Jefferson first came to Williamsburg ... In 1772, the rector asked Jefferson to design an addition to W&M. Due to the disruption of the Revolutionary War, work on the addition was halted and ...

Thomas Jefferson was ... by the bloody excesses of the Revolution. In the election of 1796 Adams narrowly defeated Jefferson. For the first and last time in American history, president and vice ...

Leuchtenburg examines how the first six commanders in chief embodied the revolutionary spirit and ... York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries ...