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Jefferson resigned as George Washington’s secretary of state on ... I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy ...

In 1793, Thomas Jefferson commissioned the botanist to ... Jefferson acted quickly to secure the support of President George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, as well as 14 U.S ...

Scott Bessent, the 62-year-old treasury secretary, has quickly become one of the president’s most effective communicators.

Lori Waselchuk George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison aren’t American heroes because they were farmers. But in her new book, Founding Gardeners (Alfred A. Knopf), the ...