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"To prove this," he wrote, "let facts be submitted to a candid world."  In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man walks in front of the Declaration House in Philadelphia, where Thomas Jefferson drafted the ...

There’s a moment in our film “The American Revolution” when the historian Jane Kamensky, now president of Thomas Jefferson ...

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NEW YORK — Gordon S. Wood, the eminent and prolific scholar who forged a highly influential and sharply debated narrative of the country's early years of independence through such prize-winning works ...

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