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

Alexander Hamilton’s archrival would support the 47th president’s initiatives, too.

Jefferson mostly wanted to vent. The two-month-old document left him reeling, especially in its provisions for a new chief executive. The American president, grumbled Jefferson, “seems a bad ...

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

Jefferson Health is expanding and modernizing services at its two Level 1 trauma centers in Philadelphia, among the busiest emergency departments in the area, with a combined 149,000 visits annually.

Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

In 1805, President Thomas Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy and Marines to stop Barbary pirates from disrupting shipping in the Mediterranean Sea. This successful measure is captured in the Marine ...

The first inauguration in Washington, D.C. John Adams was also sworn in as president in Philadelphia. It wasn't until Thomas Jefferson's inauguration that the swearing in ceremony was moved to ...