Ahead of July 4, Shannon LaNier Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence belongs to every American, including the ...

On this day, Thomas Jefferson recorded the temperature four separate times, went on a shopping spree and gave to charity. How ...

Jefferson founded a nation. He also helped found American meteorology, as BBC Weather explains.

Thomas Jefferson saw New Orleans, the fledgling city nearest to the mouth of the Mississippi River, about which he would ...

Content with his intellectual, architectural and other pursuits at home in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had no intention of becoming a political leader during the founding of America.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were close in life and even closer in death, but not necessarily in legacy.

He then pauses, and asks to start over, recalling how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt evoked Jefferson as an “apostle of ...

In advance of America’s 250th birthday ABC News’ Jay O’Brien goes behind-the-scenes at Jefferson’s home where experts study ...

The idea that any of us alone see things clearly — and that anyone who disagrees is an adversary — is uniquely un-American ...

Jefferson was “The Pen” of the Declaration of Independence and Adams “The Voice” and both died the same day — July 4, 1826.

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding ...

Former US president Thomas Jefferson’s active sex life is coming under intense scrutiny as record numbers of tourists flock ...