Michael Kranish is the author of “Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War,” published in February 2010 by Oxford University Press. He can be reached through his website ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: After the war, several soldiers, as well as legislators, saw a need to eliminate America’s reliance on foreign engineers and artillerists and called for the ...

Historically, the few examples of post-Civil War restrictions related to cannons ... the president flubbed a famous line from ...

Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public domain and the Jefferson Weather and Climate Records The Declaration of Independence was off to the press, so Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson first came to Williamsburg to attend William ... Due to the disruption of the Revolutionary War, work on the addition was halted and never resumed. Later, as governor of Virginia and ...

There is no proof Jefferson ever said it, according to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which has a page on its website dedicated to correcting this notion, a Voice of America reporter noted on X.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... while Jefferson's refusal to enter the world arena of war might be seen as a weakness. This is not necessarily my own view, but I ...

(JTA) — As an early champion of religious freedom in the United States, Thomas Jefferson’s regard for ... rank of commodore when he fought in the War of 1812. In 1834, Levy bought Monticello ...

For Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was not an end in ... “hundreds” or townships—a jurisdiction that did not then exist—and imagining that war-torn Virginians would be willing to take on ...

The film chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his pivotal ... his struggles during the Revolutionary War, and his later political career, including his presidency.