Thomas Jefferson’s legacy has been clouded by his attitudes toward slavery. But John B. Boles writes that “we must view him holistically and within the rich context of his time and place ...

President George Washington and his former Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson had become political enemies and their feud helped spawn our divisive two-party political system.

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello is betting yes.

A statue honoring Thomas Jefferson has stood inside the council chamber in New York City Hall for more than 100 years. It's now headed for another location — but exactly where remains in doubt.

How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson’s “Dark Age” Scholar Keidrick Roy on the lessons of 19th-century Black thinkers who resisted racist notions of "liberty" ...

Within days of his March 1801 inauguration as the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson ordered a naval and military expedition to North Africa, without the authorization of ...

Are Pirates Who Hijacked Measuring Tools Intended for Thomas Jefferson the Reason US Isn't Metric? "This country could have gone metric right from the beginning," the claim goes, "instead of being ...