Who Was Thomas Jefferson?

Reducere. Discover the life of Thomas Jefferson--a story about big ideas and building a nation for kids ages 6 to 9 Thomas Jefferson helped write the Declara...

Renowned artist Maira Kalman sheds light on the fascinating life and interests of the Renaissance man who was our third president. Thomas Jefferson...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson was a figure both central and polarizing in his own time, and despite the passage of two centuries he remains so today. Author of ...

Reducere. Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contr...

Reducere. In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative in...

DescriptionIn this rhyming, hilarious romp about a little-known facet of American history, Thomas Jefferson tries to disprove a French theory that ...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating Lives of the Founding FathersEight captivating manuscripts in one book: - Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an Amer...

Explore the Captivating Lives of the Founding FathersEight captivating manuscripts in one book: - Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an Amer...

Reducere. When Thomas Jefferson travels to Paris in 1784 to negotiate trade treaties for America, he takes the enslaved James Hemings with him as his manserv...

Reducere. An illuminating analysis of the man whose name is synonymous with American democracyFew presidents have embodied the American spirit as fully as Th...

Reducere. On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler urgently pleading for a private "interview" with the President, promising...

Reducere. A real-life thriller, now in paperback--the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees In an attempt to s...

Bestselling author and speaker Jefferson Bethke tears back the worn canvas of religiosity, lets an unsalvageable, phony frame of distractions fall ...

Reducere. DescriptionFounding Father George Wythe was clearly the most influential teacher in American history, judged by student achievement in high public ...

Reducere. This fast-paced, meticulously researched novel dramatizes lesser-known episodes of American history to reveal the "real" Alexander Hamilton who, de...

Reducere. Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent T...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the most important books in American History Who were the bold and courageous men that risked their lives for the glory of Americ...

Reducere. The gripping story of the man who was the American Revolution's moral compass--Ira Stoll tells readers who Samuel Adams was, why he has been forgot...

Reducere. McDowell County was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1858, two years before the start of the American Civil War. In 1863, ...

Reducere. Infamous Scribblers is a perceptive and witty exploration of the most volatile period in the history of the American press. News correspondent and ...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the greatest idealist of the Founding Fathers of America. He believed that average citizens are up to the challeng...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael C. HarrisAuthor: Who HqIllustrator: Jerry HoareStep back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life reb...

Americans have never really been fond of crowded urban areas, a sentiment that dates back to the nation's earliest years. "I view large cities as p...

Reducere. A New York Times Bestseller. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilt...

Reducere. DescriptionFor teachers and students, a guide to understanding one of Faulkner's masterpieces Absalom, Absalom has long been regarded as one of Wil...

Reducere. Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before beco...

Reducere. Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "The University" throughout the South for most of the nineteenth c...

Reducere. His loyalty lasted a lifetime...Surgeon, merchant, vintner, and writer Filippo Mazzei influenced American business, politics, and philosophy. Befri...

Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitari...

Reducere. The untold story of how America's beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key l...

"Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity...

Reducere. From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Ji...

Reducere. Thomas B. Allen's follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells ...

DescriptionLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of ...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading To possess and develop western North America became...

Reducere. In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jeffers...

Reducere. At the same time that he charged Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the great Northwest, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned William...

Reducere. The Federalist Papers are a lucid series of initially anonymous political essays exhorting voters to ratify the Constitution of the United States, ...

Reducere. The Federalist Papers are a lucid series of initially anonymous political essays exhorting voters to ratify the Constitution of the United States, ...

Reducere. The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. T...

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of t...

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

DescriptionOne man's quest to seek out--and be inspired by--the great historic kitchens of Canada and the USA. John Ota was a man on a mission--to ...

The heroism of the females of the American Revolution has gone from memory with the generation that witnessed it, and nothing, absolutely nothing, ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of To...

Reducere. Award NameMidwest Book Award (MIPA)Award categoryBiographyDescriptionEdward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antis...

Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People's History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael's ...