Ask the children. Chances are, I reckon, they’ll say Washington and Jefferson ought to have known better than to enslave people. And chances are, an adult ...

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

The Thanksgiving we know took shape thanks to New Jersey's Elias Boudinot, who inspired the national holiday we cherish every ...

By Teresa Spencer Before Starbucks, before craft beer festivals, and long before anyone thought about legalization debates, the American colonies were obsessed with hemp. Yes, hemp — not just the ...

A grave in Nashville could finally answer if one of America’s founders fathered children with a woman he owned as a slave.

Unsplash A key figure of the American founding still lacks a statue on Hillsdale’s Liberty Walk: John Adams. While the ...

The third regular meeting of the 2025-2026 season of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club was hosted at the home of Lucille ...

The Founding Fathers were “America First,” but they all would have recoiled at a rejection of universal charity.

Diseases once confined to tropical climates are now in the U.S. and more people are falling sick as a result.” For years, ...

The University of Virginia’s history goes back further than Virginia Tech’s, with its founding father, Thomas Jefferson, ...

This duality made intuitive sense to the students. They understood that their country and its heroes, like all of us, aren’t ...