Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S.

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas ...

Julie Child's favorite dessert is an often-forgotten classic of French cuisine with a short ingredients list but some tricky ...

The fact that Thomas Jefferson had children with Sally Hemings was denied by Jefferson's family for almost two centuries–until DNA evidence confirmed it. A descendent of Sally Hemings learns the ...

while keeping hundreds of slaves on his plantation and having many children with his late wife’s Martha’s enslaved half-sister Sally Hemings. The paradoxical elements of the lifelong idealist ...