On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned five delegates to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson from Virginia ...

The first session of the Second Continental Congress lasted from May to July, the second from September to December 1775. The Congress acted as a makeshift central government, creating the ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one ... like Pennsylvania, where the Continental Congress had first met. The second issue did not spring from the Constitution itself, but ...

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress ... was written by a slave owner. (Jefferson was far from the only slave owner in the Continental Congress; a full third of the delegates, from ...

“I feel myself unequal to this business” confessed John Adams, of the “grand scene open before me—a Congress ... commander of the Continental Army. Thomas Jefferson, a new delegate ...

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 ...

The first session of the Second Continental Congress lasted from May to July, the second from September to December 1775. The Congress acted as a makeshift central government, creating the ...