Written in 1787, more than a decade after American independence, Jefferson's famous letter to James Madison debated the power ...

Five generations later, the founding father's legacy continues to grow more complicated and colorful ...

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.

Ahead of July 4, Shannon LaNier Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence belongs to every American, including the descendants of ...

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

The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.

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 ...