Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of ...

Today is the 216th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. It’s a date in 1809 that he shares with another famous figure of the 19th century, Charles Darwin. But it was also ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November ... especially in its provisions for a new chief executive. The American president, grumbled Jefferson, “seems a bad edition of a Polish ...

Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

The multiyear spending plan includes projects at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia ...