he stood in front of the incoming members of Congress and offered what he said was “a prayer for the nation” that was said every day Thomas Jefferson was in the White House and “and every ...

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

Edith Fossett was 15 years old in 1802 when Jefferson chose her to join him at the White House – then known as the ...

'Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

as laid out in Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson more than a half century after he supposedly presented it while in the House of Burgesses. "In his autobiography, which he wrote 52 years later ...