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Jon Meacham is among many historians reflecting on the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson. He notes that Jefferson's life and ...

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She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn’t sign the Declaration of ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?