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

When the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked the Scholars Commission on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, a group of 13 prestigious scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, to ...

WASHINGTON — The statue in the Jefferson Memorial is 19 feet tall, but it’s the words carved in stone around the bronze figure that are truly monumental. Such as these, from Jefferson’s Declaration of ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day 85 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial in a ceremony. On Nov. 15, 1939, President Roosevelt laid ...

The July Fourth Independence Day Celebration on the National Mall in Washington kicks off Friday morning with the annual ...

THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL.; Appeal to the American People to Contribute Funds for Its Erection. Share full article. Feb. 2, 1903. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious, three-night, six-part series on the History Channel, ... He inspired the most beautiful memorial in Washington. He was long a symbol of education, ...