Lawrence Kaplan, History Professor at Georgetown University, talked about how Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy was developed and practiced. He responded to audience telephone calls. This was the ...

Three US presidents died on July 4, all nation-makers. Two of them, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day in ...

An original letter from Thomas Jefferson sent from Annapolis in 1783, which advocates for the right to bear arms, will go up ...

Thomas Jefferson was elected president on this day in history, Feb. 17, 1801. He first had to defeat President John Adams, then overcome Aaron Burr in Congress.

Thomas Jefferson Claimed He Introduced Bill to Free Enslaved Blacks 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying? The new six-episode documentary series 'Thomas Jefferson' examines the third president ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

Donald F. Swanson, Thomas Jefferson on Establishing Public Credit: The Debt Plans of a Would-be Secretary of the Treasury?, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3, The Domestic and Foreign ...

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Thomas Jefferson has shades of the History docuseries Washington, with a big difference, which we’ll explain below. Our Take: We were under the impression that ...

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 ...

The U.S. State Department was established in 1789 and it plays a vital role in American foreign policy. Learn its history, the Secretary of State's duties, its structure, and how it protects US ...

The former president’s time in France changed him, and changed America. From haute culture to a silly spat over “freedom fries,” the two countries are inextricably linked.

A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.