When the election of 1800 produced no clear winner, the House of Representatives decided the outcome. It voted for Thomas Jefferson as president and Aaron Burr as vice president. Jefferson called his ...

Thomas Jefferson', the History channel's new six-part documentary series examines the complicated legacy of the third U.S.

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

When we think of Thomas Jefferson, our third president, many would cite his penning of the Declaration of Independence’s ...

the six-part docuseries Thomas Jefferson is a comprehensive look at the life of the Founding Father who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the third President of ...

On Feb. 17, 1801, the U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson president; Burr became vice president.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always ... but not as "politicians." Judging Jefferson as a public man during Jefferson's presidency, Adams considered him a somewhat self-serving, ambitious ...