The top House Republican argued the phrase “separation of church and state” was a personal adage from Thomas Jefferson meant ...

When President John Adams died on July 4, 1826, the moment was rife with bizarre coincidences. Not only had the Founding ...

Thomas Jefferson Day annually falls on April 13 and honors the birth of the third U.S. President, who was born on this day, in 1743. Perhaps best known as the primary author of the Declaration of ...

Thomas Jefferson was elected president on this day in history, Feb. 17, 1801. He first had to defeat President John Adams, then overcome Aaron Burr in Congress.

The chief executive officer of Thomas Jefferson University said he was “disappointed” in president Mark Tykocinski’s “careless use” of his Twitter account in which he “liked” tweets ...

Quite less famously, he continued, “Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause ...

WASHINGTON — During a recent trip to Washington, I took in two exhibits on Thomas Jefferson at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: one on slaves at Monticello and the other ...

In 1800 the sitting President, John Adams, a Federalist, was facing off against his own Vice President, Thomas Jefferson, a Republican. (The Republican Party of 1800 was formally known as the ...

This expansion positions Jefferson as one of the nation’s top 15 nonprofit health systems. Already one of the city’s leading employers, Jefferson Health Plans is also part of the Jefferson enterprise.

When Jefferson’s French cook, Honore Julien, left the president’s service in 1810, he opened a confectionary business, offering ice cream to customers on Sundays and Wednesdays.

Jim Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, defended Thomas Jefferson Friday. The university recently said it would "contextualize" a Jefferson status on the campus he founded, while at the ...