The Museum of the American Revolution will display Thomas Jefferson’s chair and Martin Luther King’s prison bench
When envisioning its major exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, the Museum of ...
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On This Day | 85 years since cornerstone ceremony for Jefferson Memorial
On Nov. 15, 1939, President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone, which included copies of: The National Park Service (NPS) described Thomas ... The memorial was dedicated on Jefferson’s 200th ...
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Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist
According to an official brochure, "Inscriptions at the memorial were selected by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission and were taken from a wide variety of his writings on freedom ...
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Thomas Jefferson: Champion of Liberty or Dangerous Radical?
Who was Thomas Jefferson and whatwould he think ... the holder of theThomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation chair at the University ofVirginia and editor of 'Jefferson Legacie'; James Oliver Horton ...
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Mount Rushmore
The 60-foot-tall profiles of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were intended to represent the first 150 years of America's history and cultural heritage.
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Washington, DC famous landmarks secrets and fun facts
After he was elected in the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt pushed to get a memorial for Jefferson. Congress created the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission. Architect John Russell Pope designed the ...