Without a doubt Thomas Jefferson is one of the most gifted men to occupy the presidency. However, there is another side of Thomas Jefferson that few people know about. Did you know there is a book ...

Yes, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and shook an angry fist at the world order when he declared that "all men are created equal" also wrote his own version of the Bible. The book ...

Jefferson then pasted these texts into a blank book and titled it, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. His idea was to present Jesus’s teachings in what he saw as their purest form—separated ...

Thomas Jefferson, apparently, didn't have any qualms about it. In his retirement, the nation's third president carried out a project he had contemplated for years: He cut and pasted passages from the ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that his version of the New Testament distilled "the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has never been offered to man." Universal History Archive / Getty Images ...

The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Edition: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson, will be released November 1 by Smithsonian Books. It is the first complete full-color version of ...

2018-02-10T12:25:32-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/696/20180210122602003_hd.jpgThe work of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Paper ...

Donald Trump is not the first president to repackage the Bible, historians said. Thomas Jefferson created his own version, which became available for purchase after his death. Photo from the ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of Jesus ...