Three Civil War veterans and descendants of former President Thomas Jefferson were honored Saturday afternoon.

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

Thomas Jefferson and his Bible The 'Jefferson Bible' was Thomas Jefferson's attempt to extract an authentic Jesus from the Gospel accounts. by Marilyn Mellowes. The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804.

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, ...

With increasing regularity, Americans are ending lifelong friendships and cutting off family members over politics. But history offers hope. The story of “Founding frenemies” Thomas Jefferson ...

Thomas Jefferson has shades of the History docuseries Washington, with a big difference, which we’ll explain below. Our Take: We were under the impression that Thomas Jefferson would be along ...

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 and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery an “evil” practice, but owned hundreds of them. George Washington wrote his will just a few months before his ...

According to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, there’s no evidence that the third president of the United States ever recited a prayer for the nation, as Mike Johnson suggested.

If you visit Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home, multiple tours are available depending on the day of the week and what you’re willing to spend. On one of the tours, you can take a shuttle up ...

U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything that you have.” As Anne Berkes, the author of ...

The southwestern suburbs of Lexington are about to get a new state representative. Their two choices, Republican Thomas Jefferson and Democrat Adam Moore, are quite different from each other. They ...