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Rough draft of the Declaration Of Independence
Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...
Biden botches Thomas Jefferson quote and falsely claims Americans couldn’t own cannons during the Civil War in gun control speech
Shortly after the mistake, the president flubbed a famous line from Thomas Jefferson’s 1787 letter to former Continental Army ...
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Historians on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... years when he and Jefferson did not correspond. Her famous exchange with Jefferson in 1804 powerfully demonstrates both her loyalty ...
The Museum of the American Revolution will display Thomas Jefferson’s chair and Martin Luther King’s prison bench
The exhibit, starting later this year, represents the first time the two iconic objects have been displayed side-by-side.
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A Jewish family owned the Monticello estate longer than Thomas Jefferson did. A documentary tells their story.
Thomas Jefferson’s regard for and relationship with Jews has been well-documented. But the Jewish history of Jefferson’s famous Monticello home is less known. Enter the documentary “The ...
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The Conflict That Shaped Our Constitutional Order
Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson. Both men were ... principle would lead to Marshall’s most famous opinion as Chief Justice in Marbury v.