I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas ...

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...

In May the descendants of Thomas Jefferson's daughters (Martha and Maria) voted by a margin of 93 percent to deny admission to the descendants of Sally Hemings, the slave woman who was alleged to have ...

Ona Judge was officially a “dower slave” of the Custis family and was Mrs. Washington’s maid. She escaped from the Washington ...

Throughout history, American presidents who have an understanding of rural America and the farmers and ranchers living there ...

In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ...

The difference at Thomas Jefferson University’s College of Nursing is that students don’t just leave school with a great education. They graduate from Jefferson prepared for real. We believe ...

Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black history are stories of resilience, activism, and ingenuity ...

Historians have been ranking presidents in surveys since Arthur Schlesinger Sr.’s first such study appeared in Life magazine ...