Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

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 ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... out of a full-scale war with France was a positive achievement. But Jefferson's presidency was hardly an unqualified success.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ... which they consider a significant achievement.