The difference between cream and ivory is largely a semantic one. When you are choosing paint or fabric colors for your house or decor for a wedding, you do need to gauge the degree of yellow in the white for either hue.vory is the hard, white dentine in an elephant's tusks. New ivory is very white -- it may have a nearly indistinguishable hint of blush but it tends toward a warm white. As real ivory ages, it takes on a yellow cast and more closely resembles buttery cream.
At the time, the Declaration of Independence was regarded as a collective effort of the Continental Congress; Jefferson was not recognized as its principal author until the 1790s. 1  Play video Jefferson and the Continental Congress. 2  Play video Jefferson Writes the Declaration of Independence. 3  Play video Jefferson's Pursuit of Knowledge.
Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson is back on the public stage (if he was ever absent), the subject of new books, discussions, conflict, and scrutiny. Like Lincoln, Jefferson still has a hold on us, perhaps because heâs so complicated: a slaveholder who wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal.