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

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), ...

Jefferson understood that free speech and a free press were essential in a republic. “ Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. ” He knew ...

I n 1801 President Thomas Jefferson responded to a group of Connecticut merchants who objected to his appointment of a new collector of customs duties — the equivalent of tariffs.

The occasion coincided with Florida getting ready to celebrate 249 years of America, just ahead of the Fourth of July.