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." ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that slavery was evil. He also tended to think that Black people were inferior intellectually and, perhaps, morally to white people. He could not imagine whites and liberated ...

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 ...

Late one afternoon in May, a large group of people wearing name tags gathered under the shade of a giant tulip poplar tree on the south terrace of Monticello. As the last of the day’s tourists were ...