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 ...

Kaplan, an acclaimed biographer, is the author of the new book His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer Jefferson had addressed the topic of slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, and ...

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 ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

This exhibition explores slavery and enslaved people in America through the lens of Jefferson’s Monticello plantation. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence and called slavery ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." These words, penned by Thomas Jefferson more than 240 years ago, continue to inspire many Americans. And yet these very same ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." These words, penned by Thomas Jefferson more than 240 years ago,... The Founding Contradiction: Thomas Jefferson's Stance On ...

Jefferson had addressed the topic of slavery in Notes on the State of Virginia, and the published version had extended his views to a wide audience in America, England, and France, where he had had ...

This work is based on the author's PhD dissertation "Jefferson's Sons: Notes on the State of Virginia and Virginian Antislavery, 1760-1832." "In this groundbreaking work, Cara Rogers examines the ...