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Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello ...
Thomas Jefferson understood that free speech and a free press were essential in a republic, writes John A. Ragosta.
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 Thomas Jefferson Foundation, building on the legacy of the UVA founder’s dinner parties, has a series of Feast of Reason ...
I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the Adams references. “While the two letters to his ...