NEW YORK CITY -- The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously Monday to move a controversial 188-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson from the City Council chambers a City Hall. However ...

Thomas Jefferson declared that all men were created equal, but he also owned more than 100 slaves. When others like George Washington freed their human property during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson ...

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After Jefferson died in 1826, all of his property was sold to repay his massive debts. While Jefferson's will freed some slaves, others were auctioned off. Fossett, the 11-year-old whose story is one ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to ...

Earl Taylor of the National Center for Constitutional Studies implied that Thomas Jefferson's slaves were content -- "If you've been to Monticello and you see how Jefferson cared for them, they didn't ...

Following the building’s destruction during the War of 1812, slave labor was also used to rebuild the mansion between 1814 and 1818. (Nor was the White House the only D.C. landmark built by slaves: in ...

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 ...