Thomas Jefferson was the nation's third president, our first ambassador to France, an inventor and master gardener. He may also have been America's first wine connoisseur — something historians are ...
God-fearing citizens were indignant, agnostics surprised, atheists delighted, at a letter mailed and made public last week by one Freeman Hopwood of Manhattan who signed himself “General Secretary of ...
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 ...
In Defense of Thomas Jefferson The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal by William G. Hyland Jr. Thomas Dunne/St Martin’s, 320 pp., $26.95 Since the hack journalist and thwarted office-seeker James Callender ...
Did Sally Hemings love Thomas Jefferson? That question pops up multiple times in multiple ways-and is answered, both in the positive and the negative–in Suzan-Lori Parks' sprawling "Sally & Tom" ...