When Mary Jefferson died in 1804, Abigail wrote Thomas a chilly condolence letter ... unanswerable. In the last book of his Metamorphoses, Ovid portrays Egeria as so inconsolable after the ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that his version of the ... “But once you know the story behind the book, it’s very Jeffersonian.” Jefferson produced the 84-page volume in 1820—six years before ...

In the 1700s, American statesman Thomas Jefferson purchased a copy of the Quran. Historical records suggest that the third ...

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. Much of the book was devoted to descriptions of the physical terrain of the state. One section, however was devoted to Jefferson's ...

Andrew Lawler contends that Thomas Jefferson wanted to destroy urban, multiracial, capitalist Norfolk partly because it ...

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 ...

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson ... and that portion of the book reads almost like a dual biography of Marshall and Jefferson.

The birthday of former President Thomas Jefferson passed last week and though he was one of our significant Founding Fathers and he definitely made his mark as president, there were things about ...