Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Thomas Jefferson Day annually falls on April 13 and honors the birth of the third U.S. President, who was born on this ...

On Sept. 30, 1941, Thomas Jefferson’s great-great grandson joined six other men for a private meeting at a Washington art gallery. The group’s mission was to choose quotes from the author of the ...

The New York Public Design Commission voted unanimously last week to remove a seven-foot-tall statue of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. The statue, which has called city ...

A “little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical,” is one of the better-known quotes of Thomas Jefferson, who was born on April 13 in ...

As we said, this story is not a biography of Thomas Jefferson. It doesn’t include many facts about his life that you will learn if you read more about him or visit Monticello. Among those: l Jefferson ...

This story originally appeared on Mental Floss. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States, penned one of the greatest documents of the modern world in the Declaration of ...

A Dec. 16 post to the Facebook page for Save Southern Heritage and History includes a a statement about democracy allegedly written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson. "The democracy will cease to ...

This was less than a year after he wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. It’s important to understand that the early Thomas Jefferson was much more faithful to his professed ...