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, 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.

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 ...

Infusing African American cultural arts into his philosophy, he established a unique voice, ... “‘Our part,’ Thomas Jefferson counseled in 1822, ‘is to pursue with steadiness what is right,’” Jane ...

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 ...