Ahead of July 4, Shannon LaNier Jefferson said the Declaration of Independence belongs to every American, including the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a young lawyer, the man who would become America’s third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery. They chat about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has wiped almost all mentions of slavery from a panel accompanying a portrait of Thomas Jefferson at the Second Bank of the United States. As the Founding ...

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

"Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view ...

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since. That was less true, perhaps, for a significant group of Black ...

This work is based on the author's PhD dissertation "Jefferson's Sons: Notes on the State of Virginia and Virginian Antislavery, 1760-1832." "In this groundbreaking work, Cara Rogers examines the ...

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding ...

As a young lawyer, the man who would become America's third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to legalize their path to liberation and even entertained the idea of doing ...