Jefferson resigned as George Washington’s secretary of state on ... I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy ...

"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to ...

Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery an “evil” practice, but owned hundreds of them. George Washington left slaves for ...

The exhibit features artifacts from when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had a presence in the former colony of Virginia, pre-dating the Revolutionary War. Featured are original documents ...

Beginning with George Washington, who took the oath of office for the first time in 1789, a total of 45 men have held the title of president of the United ...

George Washington used the light of this brass ... Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson prevailed on Washington to serve a second term. After winning unanimous re-election from the ...

After the Black Lives Matter riots and the cultural reckoning of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, New York City’s ...

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's ...

He was, it should be noted, our second ginger president (after Washington). But what viewers of “Thomas Jefferson” will ... of the Declaration condemning George III for the trans-Atlantic ...