Thomas Jefferson wanted to donate his personal collection of books to the Library of Congress. But critics thought those ...

"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 ...

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Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often ...

In the 1700s, American statesman Thomas Jefferson purchased a copy ... studying the Islamic holy book was part of Jefferson’s plans for his war against pirates in North Africa.

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings ... administration’s foremost advocate of war with the Barbary pirates. Adams’ portrayal ...