The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas ...

The statue of Thomas Jefferson is a gift from the University of Virginia. At the statue's dedication on November 11, 1992, U.Va. President John Casteen made note of Jefferson's $17,000 debt to the ...

The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans’ daily lives as farmers and enslavers Sara Georgini ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... During his retirement, he also founded and designed the campus of the University of Virginia. Gravely ill by 1826, he began to slip in and ...

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia. Much of the book was devoted to descriptions of the physical terrain of the state. One section, however was devoted to Jefferson's ...