In the spring of 1962, John F. Kennedy held a dinner at the White House for Nobel Prize laureates from nations of the Western Hemisphere. Opening his remarks, he rather famously said, “I think this is ...

The flood of popular books about heroes of the American Revolution has not helped Thomas Jefferson. David McCullough's John Adams revived the reputation of one of Jefferson's political rivals. And the ...

Thomas Jefferson was an elusive, contradictory person. He was sort of against slavery, and he sort of wasn’t. He extolled limited government, then purchased Louisiana — doubling the size of the nation ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that slavery was evil. He also tended to think that Black people were inferior intellectually and, perhaps, morally to white people. He could not imagine whites and liberated ...

With Independence Day coming, what better time to read up on the men and women who founded and fostered our nation? Don't know where to start? We do! We've rounded up the top 10 best-selling ...

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Late one afternoon in May, a large group of people wearing name tags gathered under the shade of a giant tulip poplar tree on the south terrace of Monticello. As the last of the day’s tourists were ...

In an interview with Charlie Rose earlier this week, Rev. Al Sharpton called for the government to strip public funding of the Jefferson Memorial. Charlie Rose: Does it matter -- he mentioned Thomas ...

In the early months of 1803, perhaps the most consequential period of Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency—if not, for him, the busiest—American envoys were in France, Jefferson’s old ambassadorial stomping ...