One of America’s most quoted political lines came from a private letter written during a time of unrest, but its context is ...

In 1815, with Commodore Stephen Decatur’s guns trained on his harbor, the Dey of Algiers signed a treaty with the United ...

Trump's White House redesign now includes a Thomas Jefferson statue in the Rose Garden and other historic monuments.

The Virginia estate where a 2-year-old Thomas Jefferson first learned to read is up for grabs — and it will cost a buyer $17 ...

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding ...

The statue, which depicts the third president drafting the Declaration of Independence, joins those of Washington, Franklin ...

Thomas Jefferson, who had suffered great criticism for his religious beliefs, once said that the care he had taken to reduce the Gospels to their core message should prove that he was in fact, a “real ...

Thomas Jefferson helped draft the Declaration of Independence about 242 years ago. He was 33-year-old at the time. Over the course of his career, he would go on to serve the fledgling United States as ...

Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson shaped the course of the United States of America, but they became bitter political opponents. They both died on July 4, 1826.

Known as Historic Tuckahoe, the sprawling 557-acre estate sits along the James River just outside Richmond.

Thomas Jefferson's vanilla ice cream recipe, preserved at Library of Congress, is the perfect way to beat the July heat this National Vanilla Ice Cream Day.