The statue of Thomas Jefferson is a gift from the University of Virginia. At the statue's dedication on November 11, 1992, U.Va. President John Casteen made note of Jefferson's $17,000 debt to the ...
The 637 documents in this volume span 1 February to 31 August 1819. As a founding member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, Jefferson helps to obtain builders for the infant institution, ...
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), author of the American Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, was also a talented architect of neoclassical buildings. He designed ...
Hundreds of US white nationalists have rallied at the University of Virginia, protesting against ... surrounded the university's statue of Thomas Jefferson, holding a banner that read "VA Students ...
A former University of Virginia student pleaded guilty Wednesday ... The university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 also endured the violent “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, which drew ...
Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... During his retirement, he also founded and designed the campus of the University of Virginia. Gravely ill by 1826, he began to slip in and ...
In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. Much of the book was devoted to descriptions of the physical terrain of the state. One section, however was devoted to Jefferson's ...