WASHINGTON — In Thomas Jefferson’s day, the books he lovingly collected were almost as famous as he was. Leather-bound tomes on topics as varied as whist, beekeeping and philosophy were ...

This June 9, 2008 image provided by the Monticello Foundation shows the home of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Va. Several new projects launching this winter will shed light on the slaves ...

And in Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America, Catherine Kerrison, (Ballantine, 448 pp., ★★★ out of four) tells us the stories of three of Thomas ...

Dozens of Thomas Jefferson's books, some including handwritten notes from the nation's third president, have been found in the rare books collection at Washington University in St. Louis. Now ...

Jefferson, by then retired and living at Monticello, offered his own library of 6,500 books as a replacement for — quote — "whatever price found appropriate." ...

A project manager for the Thomas Jefferson’s Libraries Project in Monticello, Ms. Tay is reconstructing Jefferson’s libraries in order to make his books available online.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will discuss and sign his best-selling book "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power," 7 p.m. Wednesday, West Houston Community Center, 725 Bateswood.

For 131 years, the books sat quietly at Washington University. Then two scholars put together enough pieces to realize they’d just found 74 books from Thomas Jefferson’s personal library. In 1815, ...

Christian book company Thomas Nelson Publishers is ending its publishing and distribution of evangelical David Barton's controversial book, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always ...

Publisher Thomas Nelson has withdrawn evangelical writer David Barton's best-seller "The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson" after concluding the ...