When I reflect on the significance of the Fourth of July, I think of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States.

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

Student tour guides emphasised Jefferson the slaveholder rather than Jefferson the founding father. Conservative faculty and ...

At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and across ...

PREVIOUS speakers [in the symposium arranged by the American Philosophical Society during April 22-24 to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth on April 13, 1743 of Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson created his own gospel by taking a sharp instrument to existing copies of the New Testament and pasting up his own account of Christ's philosophy. Hugh Talman / National Museum of ...