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

Extolling peace has characterized the classical liberal movement from the eighteenth century, at least from Turgot, on ...

"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 ...

The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford, IL is hosting its annual Point of Departure Commemoration on May 10-11 ...

"Armed Forces Day, above all, honors the dedicated individuals who wear the uniforms of their country. Each serviceman, ...

In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson responded to a group of Connecticut ... were only five executive agencies — State, Treasury, War, Navy and the Attorney General’s office.

The next big world war won't be a nuclear war, or a chemical war -- it will be a war with bioweapons, said John Norris, JD, ...

His successor, Thomas Jefferson, and Secretary of State James Madison ignored ... In 1836, the Philadelphia-based bank became a private state bank. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln suspended ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America.

Chingiz Bahadur is a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and ... and I have these baseball cards right here that were signed by World War One veterans and veterans that were in ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... while Jefferson's refusal to enter the world arena of war might be seen as a weakness. This is not necessarily my own view, but I ...

Thomas Jefferson purchased us (as part of the first ... We have never been anything but a bargain. After the Civil War ended Louisiana’s occupation by a slave-powered agricultural economy ...