A full-size Thomas Jefferson is heading back to the White House he left in 1809. George Lundeen, the same artist who sculpted ...

WILLIAMSPORT, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A local museum is bringing history to life to celebrate America’s 250th ...

Descendants of America's third president grapple with history and belonging.

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

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

Content with his intellectual, architectural and other pursuits at home in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had no intention of becoming a political leader during the founding of America.

For Shannon LaNier, a sixth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the woman Jefferson enslaved and ...

Thomas Jefferson saw New Orleans, the fledgling city nearest to the mouth of the Mississippi River, about which he would ...

Former US president Thomas Jefferson’s active sex life is coming under intense scrutiny as record numbers of tourists flock ...

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

To celebrate July 4, the New York Public Library displayed its rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, featuring Thomas ...