The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas ...

The statue of Thomas Jefferson is a gift from the University of Virginia. At the statue's dedication on November 11, 1992, U.Va. President John Casteen made note of Jefferson's $17,000 debt to the ...

For Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was not an end in itself. It marked instead the culminating moment of a career dedicated to promoting the ongoing progress of Enlightenment and ...

Corpses of African Americans were snatched, illegally, for classes in Jefferson’s Anatomical Theatre, built in the 1820s and razed in the 1930s. University of Virginia Visual History Collection, ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... During his retirement, he also founded and designed the campus of the University of Virginia. Gravely ill by 1826, he began to slip in and ...

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. Much of the book was devoted to descriptions of the physical terrain of the state. One section, however was devoted to Jefferson's ...

With those words, Thomas Jefferson warned against the peril of a poorly educated populace. As the architect of American democracy and the “Father of the University of Virginia,” Jefferson placed ...

Michael Kranish is the author of “Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War,” published in February 2010 by Oxford University ... His term as governor of Virginia had just expired ...

Michael Kranish is the author of “Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War,” published in February 2010 by Oxford University ... His term as governor of Virginia had just expired ...

He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia. Mr. Braun is a recipient of a University of Virginia Jefferson Fellowship and ...