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 ...

As Julian P. Boyd, the founding editor of “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson,” pointed out, the Declaration of Independence “bore no necessary antagonism to the idea of kingship in general.” ...

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 ...

The Declaration of Independence ... with the privilege to rule over other people without their consent. 2 Thomas Jefferson said that “the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on ...

Now at the same time, Congress authorizes a committee of three, benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to compose a declaration ... he's already slipped in a sign of where he's ...