Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The flood of popular books about heroes of the American Revolution has not helped Thomas Jefferson. David McCullough's ...

Thomas Jefferson loved new technology and modding his surroundings to his lifestyle. From food to comfort to efficiency, he was always looking for ways to improve his living space with inventions and ...

Andrew Burstein recently retired as a professor of history at LSU, where he earned distinction as an author of numerous works about early America. Among his credits are a well-received biography of ...

How Garry Trudeau and William F. Buckley Bridged Partisan Divides A Hollywood Revenge Sermon The Ali–Inoki Fight at 50 A careful study of the third president's moral and religious life suggests he was ...

In the spring of 1962, John F. Kennedy held a dinner at the White House for Nobel Prize laureates from nations of the Western Hemisphere. Opening his remarks, he rather famously said, “I think this is ...

Thomas Jefferson inspires so many biographies and critiques that our impressions of him seem to fluctuate from decade to decade. His views on religion, race and government are regularly parsed, and ...

"This book is based on volumes 1-19 of The papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd and others, published by Princeton University Press." ...

It remains one of the oddest coincidences of American history. On July 4, 1826, the 50th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, former President Thomas Jefferson died in his Virginia home. Five ...