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A New Era for An Old Idea?
In the weeks after the seismic shock of the 2024 election, The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer found blue state governors and policy wonks busy framing “a new progressive vision of federalism” that could ...
The third president's music library provided the inspiration for the first program in this year’s Aston Magna Music Festival.
Patriotic education does not mean propaganda to produce blind allegiance to the government. The patriotism of the Revolution ...
Real patriotic education means that just as our founders loved and honored America, so we should honor them, while deeply learning and earnestly debating their ideas. Adapted from remarks delivered by ...
Jefferson and Adams had an early correspondence between 1777 and 1796. The latter year Jefferson was Adams’s nearest political opponent for the Presidency.
Kiplinger presents timeless personal finance wisdom from the Founding Fathers, echoing much of our own advice.
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Harriet Tubman secured freedom for herself and others
Telegraph readers will recall that just last month I was privileged to meet and talk with President Thomas Jefferson, thanks to Colonial Williamsburg reenactor Kurt Smith. Last Sunday, I met another ...
Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those books were un-American.
Jefferson escaped through the woods on a horse, or, as Tarleton phrased it, “provided for his personal liberty by a precipitate retreat.” M’Cleod arrived minutes later. In nearby Charlottesville, the ...
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Jefferson Parish, the Friends of Jefferson Public Library are selling resin busts of namesake Thomas Jefferson for $100 each. The busts are free-standing ...
One of the most notable exhibits is Thomas Jefferson’s personal library, which served as the core collection for the Library of Congress after most of its original items were destroyed in a fire.
In the Trustees’ Room of the Boston Athenaeum, around 230 books once belonging to President George Washington rest in a glass and wooden bookcase. Among the volumes: Masonic sermons, agricultural ...