"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a young lawyer, the man who would become America’s third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Cara Rogers Stevens, associate professor of history at Ashland University, to discuss her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery. They chat about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country ...

Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Few did as much as Jefferson to popularize it in the United States. So great was his love for the dessert that his recipe for it is the first known one ...

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since. That was less true, perhaps, for a significant group of Black ...

"Our perception of life at Monticello has changed dramatically over the past quarter century. The image of an estate presided over by a benevolent Thomas Jefferson has given way to a more complex view ...

“To take Thomas Jefferson’s birthday off the calendar and add this is a big deal.” The switch is the latest sign of a city struggling to come to grips with its past. The reckoning began with the legal ...

As a young lawyer, the man who would become America’s third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to legalize their path to liberation and even entertained the idea of doing ...

This work is based on the author's PhD dissertation "Jefferson's Sons: Notes on the State of Virginia and Virginian Antislavery, 1760-1832." "In this groundbreaking work, Cara Rogers examines the ...

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 ...