click image for close-up John Trumbull's life-size painting of the First Continental Congress, assembled to sign the Declaration ... he visited Thomas Jefferson in Paris, where he painted his ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

Over the course of many months, the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially ...

Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Some of them went on to become president (like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson). Others have museums, monuments, and even beers named ...

President Donald Trump and Republican majorities in both Houses, began working to pass an agenda through Congress that will be sweeping in both its scope and impact.

After his reelection, Johnson recited a prayer that he suggested was written by Thomas Jefferson and recited ... and the primary author of the Declaration of Independence thought was so important ...

The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as ...

Shortly after being reelected as House Speaker, Mike Johnson read a prayer that he claimed was from Thomas Jefferson, despite there being ... what our third president and the primary author of the ...