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 Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson , one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers as the main drafter and writer ...

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

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Thomas Jefferson's name is still carved on the Jefferson Memorial, the nation's first monument to the former president, but the ...

Thomas Jefferson’s grave marker lists him as “Father of the University of Virginia,” but the original obelisk lies at a different school, hundreds of miles away from Charlottesville. After Jefferson ...