Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were created equal, but he also owned more than 100 slaves. When others like George Washington freed their human property during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson ...

America’s third president’s home survived thanks to the efforts of a proud Jew thankful for freedom of religion in the United ...

Researchers think the newly unearthed structure was used to fire and cure bricks during construction of the site’s original mansion in the early 1770s ...

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 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 ...

Thomas Jefferson was more than a founding father — he was a reserved speaker, an inventive thinker, and a culinary trendsetter. From coining quirky phrases to popularizing vanilla ice cream, his ...

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 ...