"Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he ...

Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution traces the complex legacy, at home and abroad, of the Declaration of ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner who ...

I have on many occasions lauded the unprecedented nature and vast volume of American Revolutionary Era literature. The scope and scale of writings--everything from newspaper articles and political ...

Featuring 21 pieces by leading scholars, essayists, and reporters on the history and lessons of America’s founding era ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...

Of all the Founding Fathers, it was Thomas Jefferson for whom the issue of race loomed largest. In the roles of slaveholder, public official and family man, the relationship between blacks and whites ...