Thomas Jefferson believed that slavery was evil. He also tended to think that Black people were inferior intellectually and, perhaps, morally to white people. He could not imagine whites and liberated ...

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 ...

In Master of the Mountain, historian Henry Wiencek uses an explosive interpretation of evidence to show how, by the 1780s, Founding Father and... 'Master' Jefferson: Defender Of Liberty, Then Slavery ...

Did Thomas Jefferson dream of his enslaved concubine, Sally Hemings? No one knows. Jefferson himself never wrote a word about his constant companion of almost 40 years. But author Stephen O'Connor ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to free enslaved Black Americans years before the American Revolution. Jefferson ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instead, on Tuesday, the city will celebrate the demise of the institution with which Jefferson increasingly has become associated: slavery. Liberation and Freedom Day, as the new holiday is known, ...

In taking credit for the suspension of a University of Virginia student-led tour program that was less than flattering for the school’s founder, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Neale, a 1974 alum and ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to free enslaved Black Americans years before the American Revolution. Jefferson ...