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The primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson
did use the language framing a particular American “lineage” as reaching “back to , to , to , to ,” asserting that “our ancestors built the cities” during a public speech tied to / memorial events, an...
Thomas Jefferson’s personal religious views — skeptical of orthodox Christianity, committed to Enlightenment reason, and a devout advocate for religious liberty — shaped his public push to insulate go...
Thomas Jefferson did not redesign the White House’s core structure—that credit belongs to architect James Hoban—but Jefferson , including formalized carriage routes, an east stable, and elements refle...
—and their 19th‑century predecessor, the —have been used by presidents for routine and high‑volume signing for well over a century, including by , , , , and others, to sign everything from corresponde...
did own Islamic texts—most notably a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an () that he purchased in the 1760s and later placed in his library—an ownership confirmed by and multiple historical tr...
Thomas Jefferson owned a two-volume English translation of the Qur’an (George Sale’s 1734 work, Jefferson’s copy published in 1764) and scholars have traced his interest in that translation across dec...