FARMINGTON — Imagine Thomas Jefferson and John Adams competing against each other as contestants on a TV game show — complete with a Benjamin Franklin Lightning Round – and you begin to get an idea of ...

Two hundred eighty years ago. on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born on the Shadwell Plantation of the British Virginia Colony, the third of 10 children. Jefferson’s passion for liberty started ...

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From Aristotle to Thomas Jefferson, the most revered writers of governing documents worldwide maintain that government shall uphold the quality of life of those governed. The American Declaration of ...

The rare document will be on view for just three days at the New York Public Library next year in celebration of America's ...

"This book is based on volumes 1-19 of The papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd and others, published by Princeton University Press." ...

In addition to being known as the Father of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer, philosopher and diplomat. He served in numerous political roles, including governor of ...

"It's a life-changing place, and I became fascinated. "I then decided to do a children's book about Thomas Jefferson, because I had just done one on Abraham Lincoln. Besides visiting Monticello a ...

Of all the Founding Fathers, it was Thomas Jefferson for whom the issue of race loomed largest. In the roles of slaveholder, public official and family man, the relationship between blacks and whites ...

Whenever an argument arises about the role that religion should play in our civic life, such as the dispute over the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance or the display of the Ten ...