They died on the same day: The Fourth of July, 1826 – 50 years to the day after the Declaration. Historians say that Adams’ final words were: “Thomas Jefferson survives,” as if consoling himself with ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

Student tour guides emphasised Jefferson the slaveholder rather than Jefferson the founding father. Conservative faculty and ...

Thomas Jefferson created his own gospel by taking a sharp instrument to existing copies of the New Testament and pasting up his own account of Christ's philosophy. Hugh Talman / National Museum of ...

PREVIOUS speakers [in the symposium arranged by the American Philosophical Society during April 22-24 to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth on April 13, 1743 of Thomas ...

by CLAUDE G. BOWERS. 1. WE ARE apt to think of Thomas Jefferson primarily as a consummate polit ician, as indeed he was, but he was more significant as a political philosopher who entered the ...

The faculty presents the Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy to a deserving undergraduate student. The prize has been endowed by the trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation of ...

Thomas Jefferson, together with several of his fellow founding fathers, ... Correspondence indicates that he assembled 46 pages of New Testament passages in The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth.