For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a ...

Further evidence of what NPS has in store at the Jefferson Memorial can be found a few yards to the southwest along the Tidal ...

Godfrey event explores Thomas Jefferson’s views on slavery and liberty. ... Jefferson owned slaves, but his natural rights philosophy and conscience never allowed him to feel comfortable doing so.

Michael Hirshon. The first eight months of 1802 were mercifully dull for President Jefferson. France and England signed a peace treaty, reopening European and Caribbean ports to American commerce.

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, 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.

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 ...

by CLAUDE G. BOWERS. 1. WE ARE apt to think of Thomas Jefferson primarily as a consummate polit ician, as indeed he was, but he was more significant as a political philosopher who entered the ...

Jefferson's fundamental curiosity would compel him to buy a Qur'an, to learn about Islam, to want to think about what Islamic philosophy would teach him about government.

How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson's "Dark Age" ... starting with that you call an "anti-feudal, anti-prejudice and anti-patriarchal political philosophy." ...

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 ...