"There is nothing more beautiful, moving and hopeful," documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said Friday as he welcomed America's ...

America was founded during the so-called Enlightenment, itself a product of humanism, the Reformation and the Renaissance.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares gave an update Wednesday regarding his multi-year investigation into the contested admissions policy for Thomas Jefferson ...

Virginia's AG claims that Thomas Jefferson High School's new admissions policy is discriminatory against Asian students, despite Supreme Court ruling in 2024.

Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares had called for the federal government to intervene in the admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced the recipients of the 2025 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, awarded each year to national and ...

Suddenly, at the death of my old master, Thomas Jefferson, I was put on the auction block and sold for $500 to strangers,” he said. Peter Fossett was 11 years old when Jefferson died in 1826.

Biden signed an expansion of the child tax credit, which lifted millions of children - including millions of Black children - out of poverty. He signed legislation providing $16 billion to HBCUs.

She was particularly struck by the debates over whether Jefferson fathered children with Hemings, and why historians frequently dismissed Black testimony in favor of dismissals that came from ...