John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic missions to ...

DNA study confirms Thomas Jefferson fathered children with enslaved Sally Hemings - America’s third president and one of its founding fathers kept more than 600 slaves ...

An administrator at the University of Virginia, founded by President Thomas Jefferson, took some of his time at the podium during the school’s recent commencement ceremony to criticize the founding ...

Jefferson's call for self-governance can inspire today's citizens seeking purpose in a world filled with disillusionment, ...

A strand stuck in glue that Thomas Jefferson used to make a Bible is further confirmation for historians and descendants of the third president and the enslaved woman.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Jared Cohen and the director of Southern Methodist University's Center for Presidential History Jeffrey Engel detailed Thomas Jefferson's post ...

Scottish journalist and lifelong sports fan who grew up in Edinburgh playing and following football (soccer), cricket, tennis, golf, hockey… Joined Diario AS in 2012, becoming Director of AS USA in ...

Andrew Burstein’s new biography of the third president shows him to be a world class grudge bearer who did much to dilute the partisanship of the 1790s.

As we commemorate Thomas Jefferson’s role in the founding of the United States at its 250th anniversary, it is worth noting another of Jefferson’s lasting but often overlooked legacies. Jefferson ...

Thomas Jefferson’s DNA sheds new light on his relationship with Sally Hemings and supports the longstanding conclusion that he fathered her children.