Wilson Jeremiah Moses has assembled a daring intellectual history of Thomas Jefferson that is as bold in its arguments as it is sweeping in its scope. The study’s treatment of historical scholarship ...

Jeffersons respect for the enlightenment ideals of memory, reason and imagination shaped how he organized his library (Video: Molly Roberts). Read more at https://www ...

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. Much of the book was devoted to descriptions of the physical terrain of the state. One section, however was devoted to Jefferson's ...

But history offers hope. The story of “Founding frenemies” Thomas Jefferson and John Adams illustrates the perils of allowing politics to supplant friendship and provides an important solution ...

James Stoner - Louisiana State University ‘Everybody knows something about the conflicts between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson while they served ... Peter McNamara Source: Claremont Review ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

A new book by historian William E. Leuchtenburg examines how the first six commanders in chief embodied the revolutionary spirit and set precedents that shaped their successors' tenures Sara ...