Opening Shot: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” narrator Devin E. Haqq recites from the Declaration of Independence as we see a shot of Independence Hall in ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and author of the ...

The HISTORY® Channel continues to cement its place as the leader of premium presidential biographies with the premiere of the six-part television event “Thomas Jefferson” airing consecutively across ...

This is the first in a two-part series of conversations recorded at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello as History As It Happens goes on location, with special guests historian Alan Taylor and Brandon ...

On June 13, 1791, two future presidents rode across Suffolk County on horseback. Thomas Jefferson, who 15 years earlier wrote the Declaration of Independence, and who nine years later would be elected ...

Although not a formally trained physician, Thomas Jefferson’s observations on medical topics were among the most forward-looking of the era. Few presidents match the intellect and the depth of ...

More than 100 years ago, women in long dresses, men in silk hats and students parading with flags gathered proudly in Forest Park to celebrate. LEFT: A descendent of Thomas Jefferson unveils a ...

On the book’s first page, Isaacson claims that the Declaration based fundamental human rights “on reason, not the dictates or dogma of religion.” In the next sentence, however, Isaacson acknowledges ...