Professor Joseph Ellis, author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, says of the founding fathers: "They could imagine a nation-sized republic, which nobody else had ever done before.
More than any other Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson made his reputation on the brilliance of his writing. John Adams chose the 33-year-old Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence largely ...
The holiday will replace an annual birthday celebration of US Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, a slave-owner. The city voted last year to scrap the April Jefferson holiday. The third US president ...