The Barbary regencies had preyed upon European commerce – and were generously rewarded for having done so....
Thomas Jefferson
The president accused his former vice president of treason and tussled with a Supreme Court justice. Mark...
For seven days, as the two presidential candidates maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic...
His commitment to religious liberty helped to prevent violent sectarian conflict. January 16th marked National Religious Freedom...
Fear for his reputation and public legacy led him to beg his closest friend, James Madison, to...
Washington had to deal with the personal nature of the differences between two of his cabinet members...
Seeing Lincoln’s nationalism from an unlikely, and fresh, perspective: its connection, via the Enlightenment, to classical antiquity....
Many radical Republicans pressured Jefferson and the Republican-dominated Congress to make war on the Federalist judiciary. In...
How different things may have been if Jefferson, Washington, and Madison had freed their slaves. When 75...
Jefferson, ever sanguine, was merely trying to make the best of a wretched scenario. A yellow-fever epidemic...
The president accuses his former vice president of treason and tussles with a Supreme Court justice. Mark...
Jeffersonian scholarship is a Hydra’s head, mostly because we make it so. Political discrepancies between Thomas Jefferson...
The president accused his former vice president of treason and tussled with a Supreme Court justice. Mark...
The excised passage was not then without effect and ought not now to be without effect. In...
The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson was not...
Thomas Jefferson was aware of the pitfalls of democracy and never believed in the “pure democracy” scorned...
Throughout his life, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) collected books across a vast spectrum of topics and languages. Introduction...
If ever a library had a single founder, Thomas Jefferson is the founder of the Library of...
Thomas Jefferson crafted a letter to John Adams in a delayed reply to several other letters on...
The Federalists won, but when the dust settled, Anti-Federalists could claim to have made their point. To...
Jefferson’s reasoning centered on generational sovereignty and timeliness. It is often acknowledged that Jefferson did much in...
Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous. Merrill Peterson, the preeminent Jeffersonian scholar,...
Thomas Jefferson was deeply distrustful of the potential abuses of monarchy. By Dr. M. Andrew Holowchak To Benjamin...
The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson was not...