At the expansive Monticello Estate in Virginia, there sits a simple room with white walls, brick floors and a single silhouette that represents the life of Sally Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and author of the ...

Thomas Jefferson was elected the third president of the United States, following a deeply divisive race against John Adams that threatened to tear apart the young nation, on this day in history, Feb.

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted a resolution stating “That these United Colonies are, and, of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States.” Two days later, ...

Andrew Burstein recently retired as a professor of history at LSU, where he earned distinction as an author of numerous works about early America. Among his credits are a well-received biography of ...

Jefferson Randolph Kean and six other members of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission filed into the second-floor studio of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, near the White House, at 2 p.m. on Sept. 30 ...

The History Channel has fittingly set a Presidents’ Day (February 17) premiere for its latest presidential mega-doc, the six-part series Thomas Jefferson, which covers the life and legacy of the third ...

Why Americans are still arguing about Jefferson's grand proclamation, 250 years after he made it.

More than 100 years ago, women in long dresses, men in silk hats and students parading with flags gathered proudly in Forest Park to celebrate. LEFT: A descendent of Thomas Jefferson unveils a ...

On June 13, 1791, two future presidents rode across Suffolk County on horseback. Thomas Jefferson, who 15 years earlier wrote the Declaration of Independence, and who nine years later would be elected ...

Yes, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and shook an angry fist at the world order when he declared that "all men are created equal" also wrote his own version of the Bible. The book ...