The third president's music library provided the inspiration for the first program in this year’s Aston Magna Music Festival.

Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those books were un-American.

Patriotic education does not mean propaganda to produce blind allegiance to the government. The patriotism of the Revolution ...

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 ...

In 1809, Jefferson, a longtime widower, retired to his Virginia estate, Monticello, $24,000 in debt. Six years later, he sold his personal library to the government, and it became the basis of the ...

PORT HADLOCK — The Jefferson County Library District’s board of trustees has hired Annie Scott as its new director. “I am incredibly excited to join the Jefferson County Library District ...

17 branches of the library all contributed an item to represent their staff or location. In it is a bust of Thomas Jefferson, from Westwego are letters and menus from the town and even a painted ...

The paradoxical elements of the lifelong idealist are explored on the History Channel ’s six-hour docuseries tracking Jefferson’s political and personal progression from birth on a Virginia ...

U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything that you have.” As Anne Berkes, the author of ...

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 ...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — The Jefferson Parish Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary. The event featured a series of speeches and a band. People were able to visit and check out the history ...