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

Read more about Thomas Jefferson: http://j.mp/w07Y8G At the turn of the 18th century, Americans learned what their leaders looked like through paintings and drawings ...

In 1779, the American artist Charles Willson Peale painted a portrait of George Washington, depicting the president after an ...

In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Virginia patriot Richard Henry Lee derisively dubbed him the "African Hero" for his boldly strategic gambit to offer freedom to any enslaved African or Indian who ...

The portraits also entail stories that the images ... paintings of Washington as well as Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe. Other artists of the era who ...

When the election of 1800 produced no clear winner, the House of Representatives decided the outcome. It voted for Thomas Jefferson as president and Aaron Burr as vice president. Jefferson called his ...

The Age of Experiments/The Pursuit of Happiness” Friday, February 7 at 9:00 pm In part two: Jefferson was responsible... Read More ...

Does New York Need a Climate Museum? The Perverse Defense of DEI Students push to remove a Thomas Jefferson statue on campus, rejecting even the possibility for discussion and debate. The Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of ...