Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that his version of the New Testament distilled "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has never been offered to man." Universal History Archive / Getty ...

After reading through Washington’s state papers, many of them written by Hamilton, in preparation for writing his biography of ... Adams would have defeated Thomas Jefferson in 1800.” ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...

Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” But as more recent ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...