Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery an “evil” ...

"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to the new doc series 'Thomas Jefferson' Thomas Jefferson was a lot of things.

President George Washington emphasized the importance of education for national unity, proposing the establishment of a ...

In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and primary author of the Declaration of Independence. In Arkansas, it's Daisy ...

George Washington, who had been leading the battle for independence from Britain for almost two years. But on May 7, ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first ...

A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the ...