But Jefferson had a second motive: His books were bound for Washington, D.C., where they would become the cornerstone of the rebuilt Library of Congress, which the British Army had torched the ...

Knowledge is power,” written by Heather Rich, secretary of the Bonneville County Republican Party and published in the April ...

Cornelius Vanderbilt Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ... Prints and Photographs Division The bail bond of Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy.

As for the Library of congress, the James Madison Memorial Building and the John Adams Building are mainly used for scholarly research, but the Thomas Jefferson Building welcomes visitors Tuesday ...

This week, we celebrate the 225th anniversary of the Library of Congress. Carla Hayden, the current librarian, describes it ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... In 1776, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he composed the Declaration of Independence, which exposed a contradiction ...

I am pretty excited as we have entered my favorite time of year – summer! To me one of the greatest pleasures of living in ...

The Crimes of a King Jefferson did harness the revolutionary spirit on paper, but also included statements with which Congress was uncomfortable. Nearly a quarter of the document was cut during ...

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Jefferson Parish, the Friends of Jefferson Public Library are selling resin busts of namesake Thomas Jefferson for $100 each. The busts are free-standing ...