The crowning moment of the tour through The National Constitution Center-America's one and only museum devoted to the great ...

Jefferson's tale of an encounter with a stranger sparked a saying that became pretty popular in the 19th century.

Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life resulting in a more complete picture of the third ...

On my first day as a 12-year-old White House junior host, I managed to spill a sterling silver bowl of spaghetti sauce in the ...

City commissioners have voted to find out who is buried at Evergreen and where they lie amid the 1,600 plots on 9 acres at ...

Coffee has fuelled American politics since before 1776, shaping the mornings, routines, and even campaign strategies of the ...

Over 280 years ago, all of the land “along Wart Mountain, under the Blue Ledge” comprising about 34,000 acres was under the administration of William Randolph II and a couple other planters. Today, ...

A team led by UVA professor Evan Scott recently published a paper in Nature Communications unveiling a polymer-based system ...

Thomas Jefferson Bentley III, age 73, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away peacefully in August 2025. Born on October 15, 1951, in Mobile, Alabama, Thomas was the beloved son of Thomas and Josephine ...

Rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with a slave, Sally Hemings, started more than 200 years ago. Recent DNA analysis has persuaded most historians that the author of the Declaration of ...