Thomas Jefferson

Women have always come to the aid of men in power, but the costs of such actions have not always been immediately apparent.

Islam in America dates to the founding fathers, says Smithsonian’s religion curator Peter Manseau.

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.

Why the slope from toppling Confederate monuments to shunning the Founders is so slippery.

Kristine K. Ronan describes her discovery of two Native American statues at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.

How memory plays tricks with history.

How profit motives have driven two centuries of American gun laws.

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.

The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.

The intended audience for the document could be found in the royal houses of France and Spain.

The U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning.

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.

A historian collecting runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class.”

Populism stretches through the American experience.

Outrage over the revolt spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the revolution.

As the new administration seeks to fill a vacancy on the Court, a look back at the forgotten mid-19th century battles over the judiciary.

When President Trump contemplates violating court orders, he joins a longer list of presidents.

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.