A BIOGRAPHY, other things being equal, is like laughter. He who biographs last usually does it best. I believe the word should be biographize, but that has an awkward sound in a sentence ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...