First Class Sgt . Thomas Franklin Vaughns of Felton, Arkansas, turned 105 mdash;a living emblem of courage, intellect, and ...

Here’s some background information about the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, composed of sculptures of the faces of former Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and ...

An original letter from Thomas Jefferson sent from Annapolis in 1783, which advocates for the right to bear arms, will go up for sale July 4 with a price of $90,000.

THOMAS JEFFERSON never wanted a president at the University of Virginia (UVA). For 85 years, there wasn’t one: along with a governing board, an unwieldy rotation of professors managed the ...

Robert M. S. McDonald, Thomas Jefferson's Changing Reputation as Author of the Declaration of Independence: The First Fifty Years, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 169 ...

While disassembling the Jefferson Davis monument Wednesday afternoon, workers found what appears to be a time capsule lodged inside a concrete block. Dennis Duarte, a mason foreman for Connecticut ...

Days later it was Jefferson Davis — the former president of the Confederacy — on Monument Avenue, yanked down with rope in the hours before midnight on June 10.

Since 1996, a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial has been traveling the country, bringing the comfort of the monument ...

The bid protest letter alleges that the Dec. 7 Charlottesville Council vote to give the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center violates the law.

A replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and its accompanying Mobile Education Center are coming to ...

Joshua Jefferson has a big cast, but apparently, only for a short time. The Iowa State men's basketball standout suffered a wrist sprain in practice, but is expected to be back on the floor before ...

Yep, the Lincoln Memorial typo really exists. Here's what it says and how it ended up on one of our nation's most famous monuments.