The new six-episode documentary Thomas Jefferson, which premieres Feb. 17 on the History channel and airs over the next two nights, touches on a claim made by the third U.S. president himself that he ...

I would like to discuss the formation of the State of Jefferson. Article 4 of the Constitution provides for the creation of new states. This is a grassroots effort by Citizens for Fair Representation.

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. Much of the book was devoted to descriptions of the physical terrain of the state. One section, however was devoted to Jefferson's ...

touches on a claim made by the third U.S. president himself that he concocted a plan to free enslaved Black Americans in the years before the American Revolution. "In a part of Jefferson’s ...