When we think of Thomas Jefferson, our third president, many would cite his penning of the Declaration of Independence’s ...

Dr. Susan C. Aldridge is the seventh president of Thomas Jefferson University. She takes the helm as the university celebrates its 200th anniversary. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...

George Washington was sworn in as the first U. S. President at an inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789, held on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street, a block east of what is now the  New ...

O ur Founding Fathers might be esteemed for getting the United States of America started, but they were still regular people, ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Next is the Father of the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson. Prior to becoming the third president Jefferson served as a delegate for the Virginia ...

The new six-episode documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson' examines the third president's legacy of racism and his supposed early plan for emancipation GraphicaArtis/Getty Imagine a world where the ...

U.S. President Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything that you have.” As Anne Berkes, the author of ...

Thomas Jefferson' takes a close look at the "unequal power relationship" between the future president and an enslaved woman 30 years his junior Jeremy Helligar is an Executive Editor at PEOPLE and ...

For years, a rumor has circulated online that former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson said: "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." While it is possible Jefferson might have agreed ...