On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas ... encouraged Jefferson to accept "the indispensable duty of those who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy ...

Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of ... the Constitution was amended by adding the Bill of Rights. James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon ...

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 believed that his version of the New Testament distilled "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has never been offered to man." Universal History Archive / Getty ...