On this day 85 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial in a ceremony.

The prize has been endowed by the trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation of Charlottesville, Virginia. The prize recognizes excellence in the sciences and honors the relationship that Mr ...

Mount Rushmore is an iconic American site with sculpted faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson ... the purpose of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. hich was created between 1927 and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...