Thomas Jefferson

An 1833 statue of Thomas Jefferson will be taken out of New York’s City Hall.

Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings, wore the same sort of outfit as his famous ancestor for a Smithsonian Magazine article, “American Descendants.”

The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, will not honor the birthday of Thomas Jefferson this spring for the first time since World War II

Millionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein announced he will be financing renovations for the Jefferson Memorial Tuesday.

Philanthropist David Rubenstein announced he will be financing renovations for the Jefferson Memorial.

A member of a white supremacist group pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to riot at a white nationalist rally in Virginia and at other demonstrations in California.

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A petition is calling on the University of Virginia to revoke the teaching appointment of a departing member of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Six new exhibits and restored spaces are set to open for the first time during a day of special programming at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.

WTOP’s Jason Fraley says there is a lot going on in D.C. this weekend, with “Hamilton,” the AFI documentary festival and DC Jazz Fest.

Fairfax County has the nation’s 10th largest public school system, with more than 188,000 students. But over the last 10 years, blacks and Hispanics have constituted only 12 percent of the students deemed eligible for Level IV, the most advanced academic program.

A Virginia Senate committee has rejected legislation aimed at increasing low-income students at one of the country’s top-ranked public high schools.

Researchers say remains of a wooden ship found embedded in mud in a river delta in southwestern Alabama may be the Clotilda, the last vessel to bring slaves to the United States nearly 160 years ago. The wreck, which is normally covered by water in the lower Mobile-Tensaw Delta, was recently exposed by unusually low tides and located by a...

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For a history buff and book lover, the first female librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, is in her dream job. Barbara Harrison spoke with her.

A group of people has covered up a statue of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Several Confederate monuments were removed in Baltimore, Maryland, overnight, as the violence at a rally held by those opposed to the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, moved leaders across the country to accelerate plans to take down remaining imagery of the Old South. Statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were removed with a...

Trump responds to reporters’ questions about the Charlottesville rally over the weekend.

Old inns along the Revolutionary War trails boast of George Washington sleeping there. But coin experts say they have found the first silver piece minted by the United States — one likely held by the most en vogue of Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton. David McCarthy figured the silver coin had to be one-of-a-kind after spotting it in the auction catalog....

After two years of debate and a marathon meeting, the Fairfax County School Board has voted in favor of changing the name of J.E.B. High School. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.