Pulitzer Hall is the home of Journalism School at Columbia University. A statue of founding father and former president Thomas Jefferson stands majestically in front of this historic institution. In ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Hundreds of people count themselves as descendants of Thomas Jefferson. And their numbers grew substantially after a DNA test in 1998 bolstered the case for Jefferson’s ...

In his review of “Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh” by Thomas Kidd, Barton Swaim says a 1998 revelation showed that Jefferson “sired several children by an enslaved servant” ...

Few arenas have become as politicized in recent years as local school boards. Debates prompted by mask mandates, Black Lives Matter protests and LGBTQ education, among other issues, have brought ...

As the country slowly, surely comes to grips with its slaveholding past, one of its most iconic buildings is set to do the same. Monticello, the estate where President Thomas Jefferson lived ...

He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves. By Richard Sandomir Six ...

Shannon LaNier [he/him], a 9th-generation direct descendent of President Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings paid a visit to American Repertory Theater's new Broadway production of 1776. Shannon is a ...

Ownership rests at the base of the American blueprint. Our nation’s framers were not just proprietors of land and humans, they also controlled the narrative. One of America’s most well-known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OPINION: “Removing a Thomas Jefferson statue is just a performative action to circumvent having informed discussions on race in ...