Thomas Jefferson was a private man who kept his personal life to himself, and yet today 18,000 of his letters exist in the public forum. In them, this farmer, architect, inventor, philosopher, politician, attorney, and “man of letters”—learned in all disciplines, a true visionary—expounded upon everything but his love life....
Editor's note: in honor of Thomas Jefferson's 271st…
For years it has been lamented that humanist…
This article is adapted from Chapter Five of…
Thomas Jefferson was seventy-seven years old in 1820,…
There was a time not too long ago when mantles lined with Christmas cards were as ubiquitous as Christmas trees, when birthdays bestowed us with similar arrays, when the letter carrier would regularly visit our homes...
