Constitution Day commemorates a signal achievement, one creating a government strong enough to maintain order but with powers ...

One of Thomas Jefferson's first acts as president ... On July 17, Lear wrote to Secretary of State James Madison: "I handed my Commission to the General [Toussaint], who asked me if I had not ...

NEWLY DISCOVERED THOMAS JEFFERSON LETTER DESCRIBES THE REVOLUTIONARY ... asked if someone else might speak, and his friend James Madison obliged. But Madison didn’t have to say much.

The bad guys are getting away with it. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who won 67% of the popular vote in Venezuela’s presidential ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one of the ... The vast majority were in the north, leading Virginians like James Madison to fear loss of influence for the state that many ...

On this second day of Constitution Week, we look at James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, who was a delegate from ...

Thomas Jefferson played no direct role in authoring ... despite the fact that much of it was the work of his friend and ...

Writing to fellow Virginian and lifelong friend James Madison in 1787 ... s a much-needed step in the right direction. And, as Thomas Jefferson himself believed, an excess of education is not ...

A new biography explores the long-running rivalry between the Federalist chief justice John Marshall and his Democratic–Republican second cousin, President Thomas Jefferson. In the American ...

UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg is celebrating his 102nd birthday this month. He was born on Sept. 28 ...

Technology — some new, some not so new — is allowing archaeologists and historians to tell fuller, more accurate stories ...

Many dignitaries have visited the President's House through the centuries. Four of our country's early presidents—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John Tyler—were welcomed there, ...