Throughout my life, I have learned that we each get but one true choice: what we are willing to give our lives for. Alongside ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy ...

Special to the Jefferson Herald Keith Voss, Master of Jefferson’s Masonic Lodge, will talk about Free Masonry at a Greene County Historical program on Friday, April 4, at the Greenewood Center, 401 ...

The Department of Historic Resources this week approved a new historical marker highlighting the role of the Old Carolina ...

Ford's Theatre Director Paul R. Tetreault today announced the Ford's Theatre 2025-2026 season, featuring the world premiere of Chess Jakobs's The American Five, from The Ford's Theatre Legacy ...

Why Cults Are As American As Apple Pie” has us thinking about cults. The Manson Family and Branch Davidians come to mind.

The colossal sculpture on Mount Rushmore of four American presidents located in the Black Hills of South Dakota took nearly ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor helped kick-start the southern colonies' embrace of the radical cause ...

Thomas Jefferson agreed and followed Washington, voluntarily stepping aside after his second term, explaining that perpetual ...

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...

The Constitution describes the duties and obligations of the three federal branches of government. If you hear it mentioned ...