As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life resulting in a more complete picture of the third ...

Thomas Jefferson's very existence was shaped and enabled by slavery. Slaves placed newborn Thomas in his cradle, and slaves comforted the former president on his deathbed. People often wonder aloud ...

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

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

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The room — brick-floored, plaster-walled, empty — is simple. The life it represents was anything but. The newly opened space at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s palatial ...

Dallas will soon get a first look at an expanded exhibit of relics that shed light on the life of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved concubine. If their relationship involved more than the ...

WILL CAIN (HOST): But for now, story number one. There's an article in The New York Post this week that reflects many tourists who have visited Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's ancestral home, have come ...

When Thomas Jefferson died, scores of slaves were sold from his Monticello plantation to settle his debts. Peter Fossett, 11, was among them, and he would later recall that he was "born and reared as ...

Plenty of information is available about slavery at the historical homes of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, but not so much about their monumental legacies as Founding Fathers, according to a ...

"Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view ...

Thomas Jefferson, a man who dedicated much of his life to the idea of liberty, owned more than 600 slaves throughout his lifetime. A new... Life At Jefferson's Monticello, As His Slaves Saw It Thomas ...