James K. Polk expanded the U.S. more than any other president. Now his portrait hangs in the Oval Office, a signal that ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably the most influential of the many images painting during Jefferson's lifetime. It has been publicly ...

The statue of Thomas Jefferson is a gift from the University of Virginia. At the statue's dedication on November 11, 1992, U.Va. President John Casteen made note of Jefferson's $17,000 debt to the ...

That’s fine, although the Oval is already getting so overstuffed with objets d’art as to resemble Louis ... because he might just find that Thomas Jefferson’s masterwork — which is ...