When The Jeffersons became a hit television series in its own right, Mike stuck around for the first season of that show, but then he left, walking away from one of the biggest shows on television.

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.

The hospital’s emergency department will undergo $19 million in renovations, including a new 30-bed medical-surgical unit.

Have you ever wondered why we observe America’s birthday on July 4? Sure, the Declaration of Independence was famously ...

When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding ...

Born in Charles City County, Virginia, Hemings was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson. He later became Jefferson's personal chef ...

On July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, Adams and Jefferson both died. While today is celebrated as Independence Day in America, key figures Adams and ...

When I reflect on the significance of the Fourth of July, I think of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Thomas Jefferson's grandsons were honored in Madison on Saturday. John Wayles Jefferson enlisted in the 8th ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the third President of the United States (1801-1809), the first Secretary of State (1789-1794), and the second Vice President (1797-1801). Jefferson also drafted the ...

A Colonial Williamsburg reenactor explores how Thomas Jefferson reconciled writing about liberty while owning slaves, revealing the era’s complex contradictions ...