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 ...

Young Thomas Jefferson's lack of skill with women — including one who turned down his marriage proposal — is explored in the new documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson'.

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 ...

click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...

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 ...

When we think of Thomas Jefferson, our third president ... While he was George Washington’s Secretary of State in 1792, the ...

On Nov. 15, 1939, President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone, which included copies of: The National Park Service (NPS) described Thomas Jefferson ... and the first Secretary of State for the ...

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 ...

"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.