December 22 has been a date marked by remarkable moments in history, spanning the realms of exploration, politics, culture, ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Next is the Father of the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson. Prior to becoming the third president Jefferson served as a delegate for the Virginia Colony ...

From August 1784 to September 1789, Thomas Jefferson lived in Paris, France, where he was stationed as the United States Minister to France. He adored his life there, absorbing the music, architecture ...

Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of our enigmatic and brilliant third president. Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the ...

In the late 1830s, two young brothers from Virginia arrived in Jefferson City -- Meriwether Lewis Jefferson and Robert Randolph Jefferson. They were purported to be nephews of President Thomas ...

When news broke last week that the Department of Justice had secured an indictment of former FBI director James Comey, commentators wasted no time in calling the move “unprecedented.” As the New York ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle In late 1803, the ...