click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the ... was meant to be framed in an oval; the background extends only to the area that would be ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...

Who was Thomas Jefferson and whatwould he think of our ... yet in many ways he comes from an aristocratic background.Historians I don't think have ever been able to explain fully thatparadox ...

Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.

McClure, general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson project at Princeton ... Weather records supply more than background scenery for the historian’s quill. “As global warming takes ...

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 ...

Dr. Said Ibrahim, the new dean of Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College, believes that a more diverse medical school is crucial ...