Jefferson wrote that Norfolk must be destroyed. Months later, Patriots burned much of the city themselves — and blamed the ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

Three first-year students recently took the Thomas Jefferson Foundation up on its offer. Here are their stories.

The war he had helped launch and justify raged on, the enemy’s army had swept through his state capital only hours before and his successor as Virginia’s Governor still hadn’t been selected by the ...

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. A new ...

Thomas Jefferson has been more than a role for Colonial Williamsburg actor-interpreter Bill Barker. The Founding Father has been a lifelong passion and source of inspiration. Williamsburg looms large ...