Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in ...

Being kind and caring and gracious is something we all should be thinking about, especially around the holidays, writes Lynne ...

The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First ...

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be ...

Thomas Jefferson's nephew is buried in Nashville, and his DNA may shed light on whether Jefferson had children with the enslaved Sally Hemings.

As a Founding Father, former president of the United States, and primary author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson has a beloved and lasting legacy in America. But when he died in ...

The Mint abandoned civil rights concepts for the semi-quincentennial coins, favoring traditional patriotic symbols.

Thomas Jefferson's nephew is buried in Nashville, and his DNA may shed light on whether Jefferson had children with the enslaved Sally Hemings.

The United States of America celebrated on the fourth of last July its two hundred and forty-ninth anniversary of independence. This occasion marks the country’s separation ...

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Two hundred and fifty years ago, our Nation was conceived in liberty, our freedom was wrested from the hands of tyranny, and our people courageously Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home ...

Before Americans imagined a democracy 250 years ago, they demanded land — the material independence that made civic life and ...