Descendants of America's third president grapple with history and belonging.

A full-size Thomas Jefferson is heading back to the White House he left in 1809. George Lundeen, the same artist who sculpted ...

Jefferson died on the Fourth of July in 1826, exactly 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Thus, ...

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding ...

He then pauses, and asks to start over, recalling how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt evoked Jefferson as an “apostle of ...

Content with his intellectual, architectural and other pursuits at home in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had no intention of becoming a political leader during the founding of America.

Jefferson founded a nation. He also helped found American meteorology, as BBC Weather explains.

Ahead of July 4, Shannon LaNier Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence belongs to every American, including the ...

On this day, Thomas Jefferson recorded the temperature four separate times, went on a shopping spree and gave to charity. How ...

Thomas Jefferson saw New Orleans, the fledgling city nearest to the mouth of the Mississippi River, about which he would ...