Jefferson died on the Fourth of July in 1826, exactly 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Thus, ...

Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which the Old Dominion’s General Assembly passed in January 1786.

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"To prove this," he wrote, "let facts be submitted to a candid world."  In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man walks in front of the Declaration House in Philadelphia, where Thomas Jefferson drafted the ...

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A “little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical,” is one of the better-known quotes of Thomas Jefferson, who was born on April 13 in ...

The New York Public Design Commission voted unanimously last week to remove a seven-foot-tall statue of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. The statue, which has called city ...