Student tour guides emphasised Jefferson the slaveholder rather than Jefferson the founding father. Conservative faculty and ...

Sally Hemings and her enslaver Thomas Jefferson were reportedly sealed in posthumous marriage in a temple of the Church of ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a statue of Thomas Jefferson depicting him drafting the Declaration of Independence at a ...

The state launched its semiquincentennial festivities Wednesday in Jefferson County, unveiling a statue of Thomas Jefferson ...

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 ...

Governor Ron DeSantis unveils a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello, kicking off a statewide initiative to honor America ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...