It took 249 years, but the U.S. has apparently rejected its founding fathers’ democratic experiment – and made King George ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Today, we celebrate President's Day, a day established to honor the birthday of George Washington, whom many consider to be ...

George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. And yet the nation is once again commemorating the first U.S. president on Monday.

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...

Throughout American history, many Presidents have had deep roots in farming, shaping not only the nation’s agricultural policies but also its identity as a land of hardworking stewards of the ...