“My Love to Thomas,” she wrote her husband on the very day that Jefferson resigned as secretary of state (though she wasn’t yet aware of that). Despite the two men’s political ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... In 1789, President George Washington asked Jefferson to be his Secretary of State. Within weeks, the French revolution erupted, dividing ...

"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to the new doc series 'Thomas Jefferson' Thomas Jefferson was a lot of things.

In March 1801, after the deeply partisan presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson rose in ... cautioned by his friend (and incoming secretary of state) James Madison that things had gone ...

Courtesy: Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. Jefferson had arrived in New York, then capital of the United States, in March 1790. The newly appointed Secretary of State had been abroad ...

A new biography explores the long-running rivalry between the Federalist chief justice John Marshall and his Democratic–Republican second cousin, President Thomas Jefferson. In the American ...

constitutional constructionism and the separation of church and state. He was, it should be noted, our second ginger president (after Washington). But what viewers of “Thomas Jefferson” will ...

click image for close-up Charles Willson Peale's life portrait of Thomas Jefferson is probably ... when he was 48 years old and serving as Secretary of State. Immediately after its completion ...