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

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

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

As demonstrated by the Trump administration’s takedown of USAID, disinformation, amplified by social media, poses an even ...

Trump, Musk, and their billionaire and theocratic allies are following the example of tyrants everywhere. But it’s worth ...

Impoundment is when a president refuses to spend money allocated by Congress and returns the funds to the Treasury.

Many of Trump's Oval Office events are marked as "closed press" on the daily schedule, meaning reporters are not to be ...

The flourishing private schools of yesteryear didn’t close down because of natural market forces – but because ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...

Trump has been vocal in his preference for “one big, beautiful bill,” which U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson ... with the blood of tyrants, as Thomas Jefferson did.

On Feb. 17, 1801, the U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson president; Burr became vice president.