But what viewers of “Thomas Jefferson” will find is that its subject’s life, like that of the great country he helped establish, is inextricable from either slavery or irony.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a statue of Thomas Jefferson depicting him drafting the Declaration of Independence at a ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the U.S. minister to France between 1784 to 1789. In 1787, he was joined in Paris by his youngest daughter, Maria, and Sally Hemings, an enslaved teenager on his ...

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

Three Civil War veterans and descendants of former President Thomas Jefferson were honored Saturday afternoon.

When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding Father died on the Fourth of July, but he also perished on the same exact day ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious, three-night, six-part series on the History Channel, is never simplistic, or strident, or ready to let Jefferson’s personal contradictions (or hypocrisies ...