In the spring of 1962, John F. Kennedy held a dinner at the White House for Nobel Prize laureates from nations of the Western Hemisphere. Opening his remarks, he rather famously said, “I think this is ...

Thomas Jefferson was an elusive, contradictory person. He was sort of against slavery, and he sort of wasn’t. He extolled limited government, then purchased Louisiana — doubling the size of the nation ...

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This June 9, 2008 image provided by the Monticello Foundation shows the home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Va. Several new projects launching this winter will shed light on the slaves who ...

Joyce Appleby's concise biography of the towering American figure Thomas Jefferson is a black-and-white portrait that's perhaps too brief for the complex, larger-than-life president. Alternately ...

With Independence Day coming, what better time to read up on the men and women who founded and fostered our nation? Don't know where to start? We do! We've rounded up the top 10 best-selling ...

Throughout his lifetime and in the nearly two centuries since his death, so much has been made of the contradictions that pervaded the life of Thomas Jefferson that entire libraries could be filled ...

2008-12-19T09:09:26-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1a4/282973-08-m.jpgAppearing by remote access from New York City, Annette Gordon-Reed talked about the ...

No U.S. president thus far has sworn the oath of office with his hand on the “Jefferson Bible.” On April 30, 1789, in New York City, George Washington took the presidential oath while placing his hand ...