In his early career Jefferson gave forth a scheme of harbor-defence by gun-boats and floating batteries. This was partially carried out, and only partially; so it failed.

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery. They chat about the ...

Indeed, generations of pro-slavery thinkers after Jefferson cited ... During the American and French Revolutions, patriots such as Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Noah Webster sought to eliminate ...

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It was a scene played out exactly as it was retold by Israel Gilette, a man once enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.

The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas Jefferson's ties to slavery, officials said Friday. The tours led by University ...

On Sunday afternoon, Monticello held a re-enactment of the moment 200 years ago when the Marquis de Lafayette visited Thomas Jefferson.