Student tour guides emphasised Jefferson the slaveholder rather than Jefferson the founding father. Conservative faculty and ...

Thomas Jefferson served as the third President of the United States (1801-1809), the first Secretary of State (1789-1794), ...

A University of Virginia alumni group is pleased with the resignation of the school’s president, Jim Ryan, stating that the ...

Thomas Jefferson had a complicated relationship with the Bible. By the time he was elected the nation’s third president in 1801, the Founding Father had become a champion of separation of church ...

The yellow fever epidemic of 1793 reinforced Thomas Jefferson's harsh views of city living, ... when Jefferson became president of the United States on March 4, 1801, was no more than 250,000.

In Jefferson’s view, centralized government was simply European-style tyranny waiting to happen again. ... Jefferson ran for President again in 1800, and this time Hamilton, ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are perhaps America’s most famous pair of feuding friends. Their storied relationship ended abruptly on July 4, 1826, when they both died within hours of each other.

In the waning days of 1801, a Baptist preacher arrived in Washington with an unusual — and very large — token of esteem for President Thomas Jefferson. In modern parlance, Elder John Leland of ...

Vice President John Adams ran against Thomas Jefferson, ... Jefferson, who had lost in 1796 ... a video of Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech reached nearly seven million views on YouTube.