Thomas Jefferson

The voice of Doctor Johnson, archcritic of the American Revolution, was constantly in mind for the Declaration of Independence’s drafter.

Portraying a 19th-century president.

Jefferson’s system depended on shoring up the bulwarks of race and basing the law on a theory of government that withdrew protection from unfavored groups.

Is Jefferson's Bible evidence that the Founding Fathers engaged with scripture to birth a Christian nation? Or that they sought to foster a new secular order?

Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?

Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.

Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.

Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.

Jefferson envisioned land-use policies that he hoped would mitigate epidemics – and other urban evils.

Four new books show how different, and maybe also why.

It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.

One emphasized the freedom to think; the other, in effect, the freedom to pray.

A Pulitzer historian assesses what we are to make of UVA’s founder, 200 years hence.

Many who trace their roots back to the enslaved community at Monticello are expected to attend the exhibit opening.

New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.

The burning of Washington presented an opportunity for Jefferson’s books to educate the nation by becoming a national library.

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?

Why the words we use to describe Sally Hemings matter.

Annette Gordon-Reed explores the ways in which the many paradoxes of Jefferson make him a potent figure for racists and anti-racists alike.