Monticello: Thomas Jefferson’s historic estate shares insight into founding of America. (Credit: Rachel Tillapaugh/WSET) Monticello was his mountaintop home, and Steve Light, the Vice President for ...

Alumnus Albert Small spent a lifetime tracking down prints of the Declaration of Independence and the signatures of all who ...

Historian Andrew Davenport arrived at Monticello with an extraordinary background: He knew that at the very moment Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called “Notes on the State of Virginia” that ridiculed ...

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Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and proclaims all men are created equal. Thomas Jefferson is tasked with writing a first draft of what will become the Declaration of ...

In a powerful recent ruling, U.S. district judge Fred Biery made it clear that the president and his cronies are defiling ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Declaration of Independence was written by wealthy white men, but the impetus for independence came from ordinary Americans. Historian ...

WILLIAMSBURG — When Kurt Smith steps out onto a small second-floor balcony on July Fourth and looks out over a sea of people on Duke of Gloucester Street, he’ll be ready to give a speech he’s given ...

WASHINGTON -- Preservation scientists at the Library of Congress have discovered that Thomas Jefferson, even in the act of declaring independence from England, had trouble breaking free from ...

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...