Brian Smith as Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Jeffrey D. Hoy as John Adams and Garrett Hinton as Thomas Jefferson signing the Declaration of Independence in a production of the musical, "1776," at Cocoa ...

Singing 'Church & State,' 'Saturday Night Live' music guest Brandi Carlile recited a letter by Thomas Jefferson, along with ...

This video dives into the complicated beliefs of Thomas Jefferson, exploring whether America’s third president was truly religious or more of a skeptic. Viewers learn how Jefferson’s writings, edits ...

Thomas Jefferson believed that religion was private, "solely between man and his God." For our national life he recommended simply a "general religion" of "peace, reason, and morality." Today his ...

My friend Andrew Stuttaford points to a piece at “Dispatches from the Culture Wars” that takes President Bush’s speech writers to task for misrepresenting Thomas Jefferson’s view of religion in a ...

The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of Jesus ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.

Last weekend I visited Monticello, the Charlottesville residence of Thomas Jefferson. As I walked through that historic home, I couldn’t help but think about all his great contributions to our society ...

One hundred and twenty-seven years after it was prepared, Thomas Jefferson’s personal 25,000-word abridgment of the Bible made its first public appearance last week under the title Jefferson chose for ...

In 1802, President Jefferson received a mammoth cheese with a message about religious freedom. If you lived in Washington, DC on New Years Day of 1802, you may have noticed a giant wheel of cheese ...