Opening Shot: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” narrator Devin E. Haqq recites from the Declaration of Independence as we see a shot of Independence Hall in ...

Monticello: Thomas Jefferson’s historic estate shares insight into founding of America. (Credit: Rachel Tillapaugh/WSET) Monticello was his mountaintop home, and Steve Light, the Vice President for ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and author of the ...

The HISTORY® Channel continues to cement its place as the leader of premium presidential biographies with the premiere of the six-part television event “Thomas Jefferson” airing consecutively across ...

At a 1962 dinner for Nobel Prize winners, John F. Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when Thomas ...

The Jefferson Pier Stone was intended to establish America’s own prime meridian and symbolically break from British ...

Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life, and through research, a more complete picture is emerging of the third president of the United States. Six additional ...

While searching for a possible link between Francis Bishop, one of my ancestors, and Thomas Jefferson, Bishop’s neighbor in Albemarle County, Virginia, I stumbled upon a memorandum book Jefferson kept ...

In the late 1830s, two young brothers from Virginia arrived in Jefferson City -- Meriwether Lewis Jefferson and Robert Randolph Jefferson. They were purported to be nephews of President Thomas ...

The University of Virginia has come under fire for suspending campus tours that acknowledged founder Thomas Jefferson’s history of owning slaves. According to NBC News, the tours—which were completed ...