Before he was a Founding Father, he was a Virginian, a lawyer, and a supremely talented writer. Tonight, Thomas Jefferson takes his first steps toward becoming an icon of democracy, a journey that will lead him to pick up his pen and write one of the most famous documents in history.
You know he wrote the Declaration and you know he masterminded the Louisiana Purchase. But, you had no idea he was in America's first college fraternity, did you?
A journey of progress 250 years in the making. From the groundbreaking to the heartbreaking, see the moments that shaped America and defined our story.
