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 first came to Williamsburg to attend William & Mary in March 1760. Until April 1762, Jefferson lodged and boarded in the building known today as the Sir Christopher Wren Building. He ...

Jefferson Hall opened in 1921 and was named after the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson Hall has a history. It was nearly destroyed in a fire in January of 1983, and re ...

Thomas Jefferson is one of America’s most iconic Founding Fathers. Best known for his inspirational words in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a brilliant man with diverse interests who ...

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 ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... of the most active participants in the period's major political events. The humor and humanity in many of these letters is sometimes ...

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 ...

That was motivating for me.” Thomas Jefferson has performed consistently in both team and individual events. The Jaguars were the top-placing WPIAL team at Powerade and Beat of the East ...

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 ...