Land there was either cheap or actually free. After Lewis and Clark got back from their historic expedition in the early 1800s, Thomas Jefferson thought it would take one hundred generations ...

This tradition was established by the decisions of early presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” But as more recent ...