In the spring of 1962, John F. Kennedy held a dinner at the White House for Nobel Prize laureates from nations of the Western Hemisphere. Opening his remarks, he rather famously said, “I think this is ...

A new biography maps out the moral tensions that tormented his mind and tainted his legacy. Thomas Jefferson continues to inspire and divide Americans. Even though he still ranks in the top 10 in ...

As Mary E. Stuckey notes, Jefferson is a difficult subject because a reckoning with his manifest inconsistencies has come so late into the public discussion of him.

Thomas Jefferson inspires so many biographies and critiques that our impressions of him seem to fluctuate from decade to decade. His views on religion, race and government are regularly parsed, and ...

"This book is based on volumes 1-19 of The papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd and others, published by Princeton University Press." ...

Thomas Jefferson's place in the Founding Fathers pantheon is indisputable. The nation's third president drafted the Declaration of Independence, after all, and oversaw the Louisiana Purchase. But for ...