senior historian at the National Portrait Gallery. The amendment was proposed after the 1796 election resulted in a president (John Adams) and vice president (Thomas Jefferson) from opposing ...

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the Adams references. “While the two letters to his ...

Barton relayed Michaux’s idea to the society’s vice president, Thomas Jefferson, who also happened ... t even sure what he looked like. No portrait survives. From the appearance of his son ...

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In 1779, as Virginia’s governor, Thomas Jefferson had drafted a bill that guaranteed legal equality for citizens of all religions—including those of no religion—in the state. It was around ...