Thomas Jefferson

A historian collecting runaway slave ads describes them as “the tweets of the master class.”

Populism stretches through the American experience.

Outrage over the revolt spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the revolution.

As the new administration seeks to fill a vacancy on the Court, a look back at the forgotten mid-19th century battles over the judiciary.

When President Trump contemplates violating court orders, he joins a longer list of presidents.

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.

The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong?

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.

What does it mean to be Muslim in America? And how has the practice of Islam in the U.S. changed over time?

"You're taking over our country" echoes long-held narratives and has renewed prominence in conservative discourse.

On violence and disorder in the early years of UVA, and the threat it posed to Thomas Jefferson’s vision for American higher education.

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be published.

The Declaration of Independence seems to Pauline Maier to be "peculiarly unsuited" for the role that it eventually came to play in America.

Though the Declaration has become familiar to us, the real meaning behind it is all too obscured.

The popularity of his music signaled the emergence of a very different country.