One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

Barbara Coleman came to see Carpenters’ Hall, the site of the original Continental Congress convening in 1774 and where the ...

Technically, all three ways of punctuating Presidents' Day are correct. "Presidents' Day" implies celebrating more than one ...

As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies convened a Continental Congress in Philadelphia ... and the task itself fell on Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

The only fighting in the Quasi-War occurred at sea, and mostly in the Caribbean. But with war at a fever pitch and French ...

A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, ...

This week marks the bicentennial of Jefferson Parish, which was established by the Louisiana Legislature 200 years ago this ...

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

When we fire up the grill on the Fourth of July, few of us take time to consider what “independence” is all about. We live in the land of liberty. We celebrate freedom. But independence? The ...