In 1808 the idea of building the Erie Canal struck Thomas Jefferson as “little short of madness.” An Evanston author’s ...

Not all U.S. presidents liked to drink or allowed alcohol in the White House. Take a look at all the reasons why 13 ...

Just a hunch, but it seems likely that a lot more people — drivers and pedestrians alike — cause accidents by staring at ...

A significant letter written by founding father Thomas Jefferson sold Friday for the asking price of $90,000 and will return to Maryland, the state where it was penned 242 years ago. The letter, ...

An original letter from Thomas Jefferson sent from Annapolis in 1783, which advocates for the right to bear arms, will go up for sale July 4 with a price of $90,000. The seller is Pennsylvania-based ...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 110, No. 2, The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson (2022), pp. 313-327 (15 pages) ...

“One of the many ways we as a library have participated in the bicentennial is we had our Maker team put together a lovely bust,” said Jessica Styons, library director at Jefferson Parish Library.

JEFFERSON — Congressman Scott Fitzgerald and his legislative director, Thomas Blanford, recently visited the under-construction Kikkoman facility. During the visit, Fitzgerald, who is helping the city ...

Thomas Jefferson Academy held its high school graduation in the school gymnasium on May 16. Seven special awards, which are given by the school, are the David Thanepohn Torchbearer Award, B. J. Jones ...

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper-polarized politics? Monticello is betting yes. Credit...Photo Illustration by Felicia Vasquez; ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...