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

After comfortably winning re-election to a second term in 1804, the public backlash that followed the Virginian's disastrous trade policy embodied by the Embargo and Nonintercourse Acts meant that ...

Over two and a half centuries ago, Americans’ lives were governed by the British monarchy and Parliament. This elite group of ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious, three ... as we see—a paragraph of the Declaration condemning George III for the trans-Atlantic slave trade was edited out of an early draft by other ...

A letter written by Thomas Jefferson will go up for auction on July 4th. Estimators value the letter, which discusses the ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the third President of the United States (1801-1809), the first Secretary of State (1789-1794), ...

Governor Ron DeSantis unveils a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Monticello, kicking off a statewide initiative to honor America’s Founding Fathers. It comes amid a national debate over how the U.S.

Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Democratic-Republicans were popular in Vermont, but his Embargo Act of 1807 proved deeply unpopular locally. It angered many Vermonters because it harmed the state ...

Discover Why Thomas Jefferson Meticulously Monitored the Weather Wherever He Went ... His son bought up the tools of the trade and put them to use, running chain lines late into his life.