The goal of this project is to find new ways to understand the human personality through the
analysis of writing style over long periods of time. Techniques from Natural Language Processing
and Sentiment Analysis are used to perform the analysis. The data used for analysis consists of
large sets of personal letters written by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington -
these three figures were chosen because they all have large, publicly available collections of letters
from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the University of Virginia Press, and they were all
forced to deal with a similar set of events in their lives. We attempt to analyze the overall writing
styles of the presidents and how they change over time. In addition, we try to identify the major
events of their life and analyze the ways that these presidents write about them. This analysis allows
us to pinpoint differences in the ways that significant life events are perceived, what emotions they
trigger, and how each person responds to them; thus, we find new ways to understand the human
thought process and how it differs from individual to individual