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

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

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

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

Thomas Jefferson believed that slavery was evil. He also tended to think that Black people were inferior intellectually and, perhaps, morally to white people. He could not imagine whites and liberated ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery. They chat about the ...

A statue of Thomas Jefferson stands in front of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., on May 16, 2020. The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had ...

In taking credit for the suspension of a University of Virginia student-led tour program that was less than flattering for the school’s founder, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Neale, a 1974 alum and ...

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

NEW YORK CITY -- The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously Monday to move a controversial 188-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers a City Hall. However ...

The president celebrates July 4 by stroking his ego and choking the poor. By Maureen Dowd Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized ...