“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 ...

Ace any trivia night with these fun facts about America Fun facts about America that will surprise you Although the United ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

The birthday of former President Thomas Jefferson passed last week and though he was one of our significant Founding Fathers and he definitely made his mark as president, there were things about ...

Bridgeman (2); Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth; The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation As Alexis Coe writes in her history of the First Continental Congress ... man,” and Thomas Jefferson called ...

Library of Congress As the Lewis and Clark bicentennial ... A gift catalog from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello offers stuffed versions of a prairie dog, a bison and a Newfoundland dog made ...

Barton relayed Michaux’s idea to the society’s vice president, Thomas Jefferson, who also happened to be the U.S. secretary of state. Jefferson’s obsession with the frontier west of the ...

The amendment was proposed after the 1796 election resulted in a president (John Adams) and vice president (Thomas Jefferson) from opposing parties, and the 1800 election led to a tie between ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

On April 19, 1775, simmering tensions between Great Britain and her colonists erupted into warfare with the engagements at ...