The Copper Jefferson Nickel is a tribute to the original 1938 design of the iconic five-cent coin. Minted from .999 fine ...

Thomas Jefferson is Jerry Sandusky. And where I come from, men like Sandusky don’t deserve statues or memorials, no matter how important their contributions were.

Thomas Jefferson impersonator Steve Edenbo is shown here, in character and in costume. "If someone tries to talk about a modern issue, I try to respond with an historical analogue," Edenbo told ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote these words sometime in mid-June 1776 in his Philadelphia apartment at 7th and Market streets on a portable desk with a quill pen.

Thomas Jefferson’s legacy has been clouded by his attitudes toward slavery. But John B. Boles writes that “we must view him holistically and within the rich context of his time and place ...

Thomas Jefferson was many things – politician and diplomat, naturalist and scientist. Revered as America's third president, he was also the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

Tearing down Thomas Jefferson: Black leaders of past wouldn't agree with removing statue Martin Luther King Jr. understood that the nation had fallen short. But the Declaration showed the way ...

Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States. That’s the most boring thing you’ll read about him in this story.

Vice President Harry S. Truman planned to emphasize Thomas Jefferson’s credentials as farmer and a “great champion of the people” in his Jefferson Day radio address in 1945.

Thomas Jefferson has stood at the New York City Council since 1915 not as a memorial to the Democratic-Republican party, or to Virginia, or to his two-term presidency, but as a tribute to the ...