Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The flood of popular books about heroes of the American Revolution has not helped Thomas Jefferson. David McCullough's ...

Andrew Burstein recently retired as a professor of history at LSU, where he earned distinction as an author of numerous works about early America. Among his credits are a well-received biography of ...

In the spring of 1962, John F. Kennedy held a dinner at the White House for Nobel Prize laureates from nations of the Western Hemisphere. Opening his remarks, he rather famously said, “I think this is ...

Thomas Jefferson inspires so many biographies and critiques that our impressions of him seem to fluctuate from decade to decade. His views on religion, race and government are regularly parsed, and ...

He wrote 28,000 letters in his lifetime, amassed one of the largest and best private libraries in Colonial America and was regarded highly enough as a philosopher to be elected president of the ...

"This book is based on volumes 1-19 of The papers of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Julian P. Boyd and others, published by Princeton University Press." ...

There's never been a shortage of books on our third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Abraham Lincoln might be more Hollywood-friendly, but it's the complicated, ...