Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the ... so important that it should be a daily recitation.” Did Thomas Jefferson write the prayer Speaker Mike Johnson recited in the ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

A Republican congresswoman is calling for the new commander in chief to be carved into the historic Mount Rushmore alongside fellow presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson ...

Thomas Jefferson first came to Williamsburg to attend William & Mary in March 1760. Until April 1762, Jefferson lodged and boarded in the building known today as the Sir Christopher Wren Building. He ...

Ms. Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin. “How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in ...