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From his youth, Thomas Jefferson kept a commonplace book in which he jotted down memorable quotations from history, philosophy and literature. Nearly 30 passages that Jefferson recorded, Orlando ...
When he was young, Thomas Jefferson carefully copied those words — a quote from the great political philosopher Montesquieu — into his “commonplace book,” the private journal he kept as a ...
The most poignant literature gives a voice to the voiceless. And in Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America, Catherine Kerrison, (Ballantine, 448 pp ...
Christian book company Thomas Nelson Publishers is ending its publishing and distribution of evangelical David Barton's controversial book, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always ...
Publisher Thomas Nelson has withdrawn evangelical writer David Barton's best-seller "The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson" after concluding the ...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gayle Jessup White about her book, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy.