"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became Americaâs Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress ...

In foreign policy, Federalists generally favored England over France. Anti-Federalists such as Thomas Jefferson feared that a concentration of central authority might lead to a loss of individual ...

America’s first armed conflict with a foreign nation following the American Revolution was not the War of 1812, but rather a ...

Major Acts: Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, doubling the size of the United States. Jefferson commissioned the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark expedition to explore ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... in 1784 to join Benjamin Franklin and Adams as ministers to France, Adams much admired and liked Jefferson. Adams famously remarked ...