One of America’s most quoted political lines came from a private letter written during a time of unrest, but its context is ...

In 1815, with Commodore Stephen Decatur’s guns trained on his harbor, the Dey of Algiers signed a treaty with the United ...

Written in 1787, more than a decade after American independence, Jefferson's famous letter to James Madison debated the power ...

The new exhibition, which shows how the document was edited, also features an early copy of the Gettysburg Address ...

Opening Shot: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," narrator Devin E. Haqq recites from the Declaration of Independence as we see a shot of Independence Hall in ...

The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Thomas Jefferson wrote the enduring ...

In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson expressed concern over the failure of "rotation in office." A Monticello historian said that concern was likely in reference to the presidency. We found ...

Archaeologists have been studying Monticello, the 18th-century plantation and home of Thomas Jefferson, for decades. Yet they’re still making new discoveries. Most recently, researchers unearthed the ...

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 Jesus ...