"There is nothing more beautiful, moving and hopeful," documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said Friday as he welcomed America's ...

America was founded during the so-called Enlightenment, itself a product of humanism, the Reformation and the Renaissance.

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

"The first formal flower gardens genuinely worthy of the name" in the history of the White House are the Rose Garden and the ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares gave an update Wednesday regarding his multi-year investigation into the contested admissions policy for Thomas Jefferson ...

Virginia's AG claims that Thomas Jefferson High School's new admissions policy is discriminatory against Asian students, despite Supreme Court ruling in 2024.

Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares had called for the federal government to intervene in the admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the Adams references.

The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced the recipients of the 2025 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, awarded each year to national and ...