Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...
A new biography maps out the moral tensions that tormented his mind and tainted his legacy. Thomas Jefferson continues to inspire and divide Americans. Even though he still ranks in the top 10 in ...
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 ...
"This book is based on volumes 1-19 of The papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd and others, published by Princeton University Press." ...
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How the Declaration of Independence inspired the world despite Jefferson’s contradictions on slavery
As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...
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 ...
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