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

Global Summit features former President Obama and former Vice President Pence and marks a new chapter for the Jefferson ...

This video dives into the complicated beliefs of Thomas Jefferson, exploring whether America’s third president was truly religious or more of a skeptic. Viewers learn how Jefferson’s writings, edits ...

Jefferson let slip a reference to Destutt de Tracy’s three volumes on Ideology, which Adams seized: — ‘Three vols. of Ideology?’ Pray explain to me this neological title. What does it mean?

They died on the same day: The Fourth of July, 1826 – 50 years to the day after the Declaration. Historians say that Adams’ final words were: “Thomas Jefferson survives,” as if consoling himself with ...

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

For all the festivities around July 4, the nation’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, actually depicts a ...

U.S. sprinter Gabby Thomas has called out a man who heckled her and bragged about his betting results throughout a Grand Slam Track event this weekend. Thomas, who won three gold medals at the ...

While serving as the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson embarked in 1805 on a secret, personal project that would occupy him for the next 15 years. He decided to edit the ...

'Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S. president, including the start of his relationship with Sally Hemings ...

The paradoxical elements of the lifelong idealist are explored on the History Channel ’s six-hour docuseries tracking Jefferson’s political and personal progression from birth on a Virginia ...

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