The new six-episode documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson' examines the ... historian Annette Gordon-Reed confirms in the first episode. If Jefferson had had his way, according to his memoir ...

The first eight months of ... Like Numa, Jefferson was a widower (his wife, Martha, died in 1782) who would prepare himself for the job by consorting with a nymph, his second wife, in a grove ...

As Anne Berkes, the author of the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia post about the quote, noted, the quote appears to have first been attributed to Jefferson in a 2005 quote anthology titled "The ...

Who was Thomas Jefferson as a man? First of all, he was a devoted husband to Martha. When she died, he was almost inconsolable. Second, unlike most of his peers, he never joined the military.

Thomas Jefferson was a busy person during the week ... Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), he purchased his first barometer a few days following the signing of the document.

Directed by Jon Hirsch, the six-part docuseries Thomas ... at Jefferson’s Montecello estate and Gayle Jessup White, a descendant of Jefferson, are also interviewed. The first episode profiles ...