Tag: Thomas Jefferson

  • Jefferson was impefect, but made great contributions

    Jefferson was impefect, but made great contributions

    On July 4 we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence and to an extent, the man who wrote it, Thomas Jefferson. “We hold these truths to be self-evident … that all men are created equal,” Jefferson wrote. Those exalted words, however, did not apply to women, to Frederick Douglass, or to Sitting Bull.…