Thomas Jefferson Day annually falls on April 13 and honors the birth of the third U.S. President, who was born on this day, in 1743. Perhaps best known as the primary author of the Declaration of ...

It's the latest statue to fall in Richmond in recent days. Protesters tore down the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Virginia's capital on Wednesday night. Police were called to the ...

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 Colony ...

HOW rapidly the face of the world changes in these modern times ! As recently as 1794, it was a common occurrence for such a letter as the following to be read out in church at seaport towns, like ...

[This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman]. But in this post, we will discuss several aspects of oral argument with regard to the phrase "Office . . . under the United States." ...

Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of division and a bloodbath that cost thousands of Americans ...

File - This 2017 photo shows a statue of Jefferson Davis, Confederate president, on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. The statue was torn down by protesters in 2020. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) From ...

Sherrie Rollins Westin, president of Sesame Workshop and a 1980 graduate of the University of Virginia, has been named this year’s recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Citizen ...

Washington & Jefferson College has named as its 14th president Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, now serving as president of William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. She will succeed John Knapp, who ...

On a sunny day in late June, Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng stepped to a podium in front of the courthouse in Gretna and announced that she was invoking her power to order that masks be ...