Events

Public Program, Jefferson Series

Gallery Talk: Fellow Laborers: The Friendship of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

Sara Sikes, Associate Editor, Adams Papers and Sara Georgini, Assistant Editor, Adams Papers
Friday, March 4, 2016, 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Free

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams worked together on the Declaration of Independence, were political allies, and were friends, but they they grew apart and became fierce opponents in the election of 1800. Although they did not speak for years, later in life they reconciled. Two leading scholars will talk about this relationship and what it meant to two founding fathers.