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 ...

Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of division and a bloodbath that cost thousands of Americans ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote the words that have defined the American dream: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ...

Thomas Jefferson. The mention of the name of our nation’s third president, for some Americans, brings to mind the Declaration of Independence, the founding of our country and Jefferson’s home, ...

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

While serving as the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson embarked in 1805 on a secret, personal project that would occupy him for the next 15 years. He decided to edit the Christian ...

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 ...

Jefferson Randolph Kean and six other members of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission filed into the second-floor studio of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, near the White House, at 2 p.m. on Sept. 30 ...

The History Channel has fittingly set a Presidents’ Day (February 17) premiere for its latest presidential mega-doc, the six-part series Thomas Jefferson, which covers the life and legacy of the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Sitting in her grade school classroom in California, Tess Taylor maintained a code of silence about being a descendant of Thomas Jefferson as she sorted through familial pride and ...