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

Also invoking King’s legacy was David Houle of Highland Park. Raised on the South Side of Chicago and now in his 70s, his ...

Barton relayed Michaux’s idea to the society’s vice president, Thomas Jefferson ... Upon moving to the United States and purchasing a large plantation in South Carolina, where he collected ...

A committee of five was appointed to draft the declaration, and the task itself fell on Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Discussions of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence resulted in some ...

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania. It has deep roots in US history. It’s where the most prominent early ...

Abolitionist, friend to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson ... liberty in both France and the United States. The New Orleans that Lafayette saw, and the large and diverse array of people ...

When "Clergyman" wrote his letter, most Vermonters who made maple sugar only produced enough to meet their own families’ needs.

Interestingly, the first swivel chair was invented by Thomas Jefferson. It’s even purported to be the same chair that he sat on as he drafted the United States Declaration of Independence back ...

Several states, including Massachusetts and South Carolina, had official, state-supported churches. In 1779, as Virginia’s governor, Thomas Jefferson ... as the Declaration of Independence ...

The courts can only do so much to protect us. Will more people be doomed to the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia?

It was widely known that Thomas Jefferson coveted all of North America for the United States. When the war ... arrived that President Madison had signed the Declaration of War on June 18.