it was invented in 1780 by James Watt, the inventor who invented also the steam engine. …It was used by many notable people, ...

Barton relayed Michaux’s idea to the society’s vice president, Thomas Jefferson, who also happened to be the U.S. secretary of state. Jefferson’s obsession with the frontier west of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” But as more recent ...