Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S.

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Jeffersons respect for the enlightenment ideals of memory, reason and imagination shaped how he organized his library (Video: Molly Roberts). Read more at https://www ...

Laura Dean Bennett Staff Writer For self-styled students of American history, like me, Presidents Day provides an annual ...

Scratch the surface of history, and you're likely to find the presence of a very powerful book. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but it was another Tom, Thomas Paine ...

A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

Two new books about Thomas Jefferson are out, one fiction (Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings by Stephen O’Connor), one non-fiction (“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs” by Annette ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

is to be found in Annette Gordon-Reed’s account of how she came to write her groundbreaking book Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1995), which she followed up with ...