Just in time for the country’s 250th birthday, “Being Thomas Jefferson” promises “an intimate history” of the primary author ...

Opening Shot: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” narrator Devin E. Haqq recites from the Declaration of Independence as we see a shot of Independence Hall in ...

In addition to being known as the Father of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer, philosopher and diplomat. He served in numerous political roles, including governor of ...

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 ...

Two hundred eighty years ago. on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born on the Shadwell Plantation of the British Virginia Colony, the third of 10 children. Jefferson’s passion for liberty started ...

Thomas Jefferson once called the letters of A person “the only full and genuine journal of his life.” By that standard, Princeton University Press’s exhaustive Papers of Thomas Jefferson, the 31st ...

"Race did not spread because it was scientifically persuasive. It spread because it served very human interests." ...

His words define American democracy and our national identity. But when Thomas Jefferson wrote that “all men are created equal” with the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” did that ...

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