Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography.(Brief article)(Book review)Johnson, Emily
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809 On the morning of Sunday, February 12,Nancy Hanks Lincoln, wife ofThomas, gavebirthto a boy. He was born on a bed of poles covered with cornhusks. The baby was named Abraham after his grandfather. The birth took place in the Lincolns' rough-he...
Weather vanes appeared during Colonial times and became an American tradition.Thomas Jeffersonhad a weather vane at his Monticello house. It was designed with a pointer that extended to a compass rose on the ceiling in the room below so that he could see the wind direction from inside his hou...
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Even after the opening battles of the Revolutionary War broke out, most colonists opposed seeking total independence from Great Britain. Those who supported independence, like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, were considered dangerous radicals. Over the next year, however, Britain deployed nearly all ...
Simon Winchester's magisterial biography of the Atlantic Ocean portrays it both as a planetary feature and as a human stage — the “inland sea of Western civilization” along whose coasts humans have settled and traded for millennia. From its early navigation by the Norse and European sailors,...