This video dives into the complicated beliefs of Thomas Jefferson, exploring whether America’s third president was truly religious or more of a skeptic. Viewers learn how Jefferson’s writings, edits ...

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 ...

The actions of high-level members of the U.S. Department of Justice, threatening the university with massive freezes in the ...

An original letter from Thomas Jefferson sent from Annapolis in 1783, which advocates for the right to bear arms, will go up ...

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

The text says that governments are human constructions. The legitimacy of governments depends upon democratic consent, not ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...