Thomas Jefferson

"Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art,” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, surveys the arch as icon and propaganda.

Why John Adams was peculiarly unsuited to the moment.

Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.

Lessons from 1800.

When Thomas Jefferson penned ‘all men are created equal,’ he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar.

A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.

Edward White’s new monthly column, “Off Menu,” serves up lesser-told stories of chefs cooking in interesting times.

Official responses to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 shows that the refusal to accept responsibility can have catastrophic consequences.

On the occasion of its bicentennial, and in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, UVA confronts its history.

Religious bigotry is only less pressing today than racial bigotry because of progress Jefferson helped bring about.

Reflections on the long career of race science at Mr. Jefferson's university.

The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy. That enraged Thomas Jefferson.

From religious liberty to religious violence, it helps to get our facts straight.

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.

"But he'd have to acknowledge that the soul of his country is southern; the soul of his country is black."

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.