The third president's music library provided the inspiration for the first program in this year’s Aston Magna Music Festival.

The U.S. declared independence from Great Britain 249 years ago – on July 4, 1776. Independence Day gatherings were a little different in those days, and so was the weather.

Patrick Henry will never be forgotten — “Liberty or Death” ensures that — but he’s less remembered than his peers who became president, partly because he never served in that office, and also because ...

Jefferson and Adams had an early correspondence between 1777 and 1796. The latter year Jefferson was Adams’s nearest political opponent for the Presidency.

Brian Mann is NPR's first national addiction correspondent. He also covers breaking news in the U.S. and around the world. Mann began covering drug policy and the opioid crisis as part of a ...

Virginian Thomas Jefferson had many careers: farmer, lawyer, inventor, architect and statesman. A member of the Second Continental Congress, he was the principal author of the Declaration of ...

Object Details painter Sully, Thomas 1783-1872 Subject Randolph, Thomas Mann, Mrs. (Martha Jefferson) Notes ...