Jefferson, George

Jefferson, George

bumptious black who thinks money is every-thing. [TV: “The Jeffersons” in Terrace, I, 409–410]
See: Arrivism
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Featuring more than 125 objects from the museum's collection and private lenders--including art and artifact--the Navajo blanket owned by General William Sherman, a collection of Plains Nations pipes and beaded pipe bags, peace medals given to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and the sword and scabbard of Andrew Jackson (on loan from the National Museum of American History)--tell the story of early ancestors and their efforts to live side-by-side at the birth of the United States.
The North/USA
"The principle of separation of church and state is a principle that was devised in part by men like James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington--[it] goes back to the founding period," Boston said.
Church-state separation is trick of Satan, says Texas Gov. Perry
Biographer of Benjamin and William Franklin, of Benedict Arnold, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Ethan Allen, he has taught American history at John Cabot University in Rome and at the University of Vermont and Champlain College, where he was a professor.
New Word City LLC Announces the Publication of How Cool Is Mark Twain? A Book for Young Readers, by the Editors of New Word City
leaders such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.
Good will chasing
Although not an intellectual like Hamilton or Jefferson, George Washington "always understood power and how to use it." Historians routinely contrast the two great rivals, but for succinctness, nothing matches Wood's opening to his chapter on westward expansion: "Hamilton always faced east, toward Europe ...
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
This book also contains the author's personal observations about US statesmen such as Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and James Madison.
Free, sovereign and independent states; the intended meaning of the American constitution
A favorite stop along the walk is the City Tavern, a reconstruction of the famous Colonial tavern where Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin spent hours discussing matters of state, business and probably pleasure.
Historic strolls
House Arrest follows her well-known documentary format, weaving together actual text--this time to, as the play's subtitle asserts, "search for American character in and around the White House, past and present." Using the actual words of Ken Burns, Gary Hart, Peggy Noonan, Thomas Jefferson, George Stephanopolous and others, she examines political image and reality through the lens of presidents and those who observe them.
Smith, Anna Deavere. House arrest and Piano, two plays
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King is in third position, ahead of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Franklin D.
Homer top American
Scalia spoke briefly at a ceremony in Fredericksburg, Va., commemorating the day Thomas Jefferson, George Mason and other colonial leaders gathered to draft what became the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
Scalia says laws permit public expression of religion. (Nation)
He argues that not only were some of them deists (Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, and others), but that some used such approaches as epistemological rationalism to philosophically examine theology, ethics, and the philosophy of religion.
The high cost of heresy. (Reviews)
Profiles of Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and others consider the flesh-and-blood men behind the legends and offer insight into the shaping of America's destiny.
TV tips. (Resources)

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