A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson has called for the memorial to the third president to be removed from Washington, D.C. Writing in the New York Times Monday morning, Lucian K. Truscott IV says ...

Thomas Jefferson's name is still carved on the Jefferson Memorial, the nation's first monument to the former president, but the building is now known as the Missouri History Museum. Near the statue of ...

For those who remember 1976, the name for next year’s celebration of American independence doesn’t roll off the tongue quite ...

For the next two years, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C, will undergo work to improve accessibility and guest services, according to the National Park Service. “The expanded and ...

More than 100 years ago, women in long dresses, men in silk hats and students parading with flags gathered proudly in Forest Park to celebrate. LEFT: A descendent of Thomas Jefferson unveils a ...

Earlier this week, The New York Times published an opinion piece by Lucian K. Truscott IV, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, advocating the removal of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) — What’s darkening the formerly white rotunda of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial? Is it dirt? Is it mold? No, it’s biofilm! The National Park Service said in a news release that biofilm, ...

Jefferson Randolph Kean and six other members of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission filed into the second-floor studio of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, near the White House, at 2 p.m. on Sept. 30 ...

Two descendants of Thomas Jefferson said they want his DC memorial replaced because it glorifies the third president as a Founding Father without providing context about him being a slaveholder, ...

The National Park Service has began a two-year renovation and restoration of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The chamber and the statue of Jefferson will remain open during the work, the park service ...

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson , one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers as the main drafter and writer ...