"When exactly Thomas Jefferson begins his physical relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings is unknown," he says, "but it ...

France and England signed a peace treaty ... I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the ...

France’s King Louis XVI had personally appointed ... Michaux as a pawn for his own political ends. Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia ...

By 1789, while serving as the U.S. minister to France, Jefferson ... U.S. as we approach the nation's 250th anniversary.” Thomas Jefferson premieres Feb. 17 on the History channel at 8 p.m ...

Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became Americaâs Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress ...

As for the ever-succinct Thomas Jefferson, he wasted little time on rhetoric. “The enlightened government of France saw, with just discernment,” he told Congress, with typical tact ...

Donald Trump In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from France. The acquisition from the French Republic consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's ...

When we think of Thomas Jefferson, our third president ... Napoleon Bonaparte to purchase the vast Louisiana Territory from ...