A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

After leading the Continental Army to victory over the British ... Constitution drafted in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Hamilton despised slavery and fought to end it — at least, that ...

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was based on Jefferson’s "Report ... But Washington held the Continental Army together, "in being" as the military expression puts it, and he had a masterly ...

Submitted by influential representatives Brad Schneider (Democrat) and Joe Wilson (Republican), the house resolution says ...

By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityWhen the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, the colonies relied on local militias to ...

and voters may soon be sending anti-love letters to their representatives in Congress. So it’s welcome news that even a few Republicans on Capitol Hill are registering at least some displeasure ...

In the fall of 1774, Adams and 55 other delegates journeyed all manner of distances by foot, horseback and carriage to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. Before now, few of “the ...

But his advice can also apply to the state of Congress today. The three holes it has fallen into involve not living up to its basic constitutional roles of first exercising the powers of the purse ...

HANOVER, Germany — Continental A.G.'s supervisory board has approved the planned spin-off of the firm's "automotive" business unit and recommended that shareholders approve the step at the annual ...