Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... In 1776, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress, he composed the Declaration of Independence, which exposed a contradiction ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy continues to haunt.

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching ... When the document was presented to the Continental Congress on July 1, 1776, both northern and southern slaveholding ...

On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned five delegates to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson from Virginia ...

We need a new Committee of Five, five patriotic and brave Republican Senators who will honor their oath to the Constitution ...

President Trump plunged the global economy into chaos on April 2 by announcing a wave of tariffs on U.S. imports. In a ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one ... like Pennsylvania, where the Continental Congress had first met. The second issue did not spring from the Constitution itself, but ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one ... like Pennsylvania, where the Continental Congress had first met. The second issue did not spring from the Constitution itself, but ...