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Book cover of the US constitution with the Jefferson's Manual. A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1801, is the first American book on parliamentary procedure. As Vice President of the United States, Jefferson served as the Senate's presiding officer from 1797 to 1801 ...
Thomas Jefferson's involvement with and support of education is best known through his founding of the University of Virginia, which he established in 1819 as a secular institution after he left the presidency of the United States. Jefferson believed that libraries and books were so integral to individual and institutional education that he ...
The book also exposes the paradox in Jefferson's way of thinking; there is an incongruence between Jefferson's thoughts versus his actions. There was a series of bills that were passed in Virginia, which resulted positively for schools, yet detrimentally impacted the treatment of slaves and criminals. [ 6 ]
Ellis' approach to explaining the character of Thomas Jefferson begins on June 20, 1775, with Jefferson's arrival in Philadelphia as the Colony of Virginia's delegate to the Continental Congress and the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. He follows through to the president's retirement at Monticello. Central to the book are Jefferson ...
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. [6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence .
The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson intellectual history approach to Jefferson's presidency, University Press of Kansas, 216 pages; ISBN 978-0-7006-0330-5; Book; McDonald, Robert M. S. (2004). Thomas Jefferson's Military Academy: Founding West Point. Jeffersonian America University of Virginia Press, 233 pages; ISBN 978-0-8139-2298-0; Book ...
Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president Territorial growth in the U.S. between 1800 and 1810. Thomas Jefferson is a central figure in early American history, highly praised for his political leadership but also criticized for the role of slavery in his private life. He championed equality, democracy and republicanism, attacking aristocratic ...
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America is a short 2005 biography of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), by author, journalist and literary critic Christopher Hitchens.