Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil War. A new documentary on the third U.S. president considers the ...

In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen.Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a ...

Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Flesh and Spirit, by Thomas S. Kidd (Yale University Press, 320 pp., $30) T homas S. Kidd opens his new biography of Thomas Jefferson by relating the mass of ...

Our third president, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), was not much of a public speaker – “He liked writing better than talking” – and though he participated deeply in the politics of his ...

But what viewers of “Thomas Jefferson” will find is that its subject’s life, like that of the great country he helped establish, is inextricable from either slavery or irony.

Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson’s good name in the process. The hilltop mansion designed by Jefferson himself, once preserved as a tribute to the author of the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Our third president, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), was not much of a ...

Kaplan, an acclaimed biographer, is the author of the new book His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer Jefferson had addressed the topic of slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia ...

W hen I first began to plan my short biography of Thomas Jefferson, I found it difficult to research the chapter concerning the so-called Barbary Wars: an event or series of events that had seemingly ...