I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

This week's Ken Bridges Texas History column is the second in a 2-part series exploring the disastrous Red River Expedition.

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 sparked a new wave of exploration in the United States as a number of expeditions were commissioned at the direction of President Thomas Jefferson to ...

Throughout history, American presidents who have an understanding of rural America and the farmers and ranchers living there ...

Consider the case of Thomas Jefferson, the Albemarle County lawyer, planter and member of the House of Burgesses. As a “conscientious observer” of the boycott of British goods, Jefferson recently sent ...

Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S.

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.

Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a ...