Jefferson, an avid weather observer, kept meticulous climate records throughout his life. In Philadelphia, during the summer ...

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

Right around the Fourth of July, Americans pay renewed attention to the country’s crucial founding document, the Declaration ...

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

When I reflect on the significance of the Fourth of July, I think of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and across ...

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.

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 ...