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

For the Founding Fathers, the pursuit of happiness meant the pursuit of long-term virtue, National Constitution Center ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

Ever since the second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day — July 4th, 1826, the 50th ...

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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.

Those simple words are inscribed in large letters on the wall of the Carter Center in Atlanta. More than a fitting epitaph for President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, who died Dec. 29. Truth, law and ...

Scotland has a unique opportunity to engage with the United States – as it celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of the US ...

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

The ordinance dictated the rules for territories to become states and required that, as a necessity of “good government and ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby’s, where it is estimated at $2 to $4 million. It comes to auction less than four years after it sold at Christie ...

the Declaration of Independence, in which Thomas Jefferson spoke of “the pursuit of happiness.” Jefferson’s memorable use in 1776 of that magisterial phrase, “the pursuit of happiness ...