The first log slave quarters with dirt floors to be rebuilt at Thomas Jefferson's home were formally unveiled Saturday at Monticello, and descendants of more than 100 slaves from the third president's ...

I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff ...

The Founding Father became a genuine architectural thinker during his time in France, and upon returning to his Virginia home ...

Archaeologists have been studying Monticello, the 18th-century plantation and home of Thomas Jefferson, for decades. Yet they’re still making new discoveries. Most recently, researchers unearthed the ...

Monticello, near Charlottesville, VA, tells story of America's complex and iconic third president, Thomas Jefferson.

ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. --Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia mountaintop home, is a popular tourist destination, but only in recent years have tour guides been allowed to give the whole story.

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The home of Thomas Jefferson named Monticello is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. His home is based on two Paladin villas built many years ago and from personal sketches he recorded in France as ...

Plenty of information is available about slavery at the historical homes of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, but not so much about their monumental legacies as Founding Fathers, according to a ...

The newest exhibition at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello, can be described as upstairs/downstairs in Colonial America, with props and voice-overs. Thomas ...

Thomas Jefferson was in his sanctuary of Monticello, gathering precious papers. The British charged up a mountain road, planning to capture him. It was June 4, 1781, nearly five years after Jefferson ...