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 ...

It is possible to glimpse the majesty of Thomas Jefferson in Willard Sterne Randall’s new biography. But you have to work at it. It’s all here, somewhere, amid a pile of data and quotations and facts ...

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 ...

Glories of the Gilded Age, at Chicago’s Driehaus Museum This Halloween, Treat Yourself to a Neglected Horror Masterpiece A careful study of the third president's moral and religious life suggests he ...

The flood of popular books about heroes of the American Revolution has not helped Thomas Jefferson. David McCullough's John Adams revived the reputation of one of Jefferson's political rivals. And the ...

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 ...

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The third president’s attempts to revise Scripture offer a warning about our own tendency to “edit” the truth. I first heard of Thomas Jefferson’s Bible as a warning. I was a teenager in a Bible study ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one of the ...