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 ...
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 ...
Throughout history, American presidents who have an understanding of rural America and the farmers and ranchers living there ...
As we celebrate Presidents Day, we struggle to remember who George Washington was. That kind of national amnesia isn’t ...
On April 26, 1777, during the Revolutionary War, a large British raiding party attacked the American supply depot at Danbury, ...