Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

The White House has suggested that President Donald Trump may have the authority to tear down the Jefferson Memorial or any ...

Demonstrators skipped, swayed and shimmied at the Jefferson Memorial in a protest of a ban on dancing there, a week after five people were forcefully arrested for dancing. U.S. Park Police officers ...

A local government advisory commission in Washington, D.C. has recommended sweeping name changes for schools, government buildings, and public spaces in the nation's capital, and is urging city's ...

The 1911 Jefferson Davis statue erected in the Jim Crow racial segregation era is taken off of its pedestal in New Orleans, La. Thursday, May 11, 2017.The city council voted to remove the monument and ...