Thomas Jefferson was in the fifth year of his presidency ... Shawnees and Wyandottes. The 1806 solar eclipse would prove especially significant for two Shawnee brothers: Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) The world is filled with self ... The most famous of these recognitions was Thomas Jefferson's iconic line in the Declaration of Independence that self-evident truths ...

See letters from Meyer Lanksy, a speech by Thomas Jefferson and significant artefacts from the Lincoln assassination at this ...

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 sparked a new wave of exploration in the United States as a number of expeditions were commissioned at the direction of President Thomas Jefferson to explore the new ...

Most Americans have heard the story of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery that was sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the new Louisiana Purchase from 1804-1806. What most people do not ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...