On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...
Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...
In 1848, the Boston Athenaeum acquired more than 300 volumes from the famed Virginian's collection of books. They nearly ...
It took 249 years, but the U.S. has apparently rejected its founding fathers’ democratic experiment – and made King George ...
New Jersey backed George Washington twice. Washington received all six of the state’s electoral votes in 1789.  New Jersey gave six of their votes for ...
Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the ...
Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.