A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

The crux of Jefferson’s letter is his explanation that the First Amendment “thus builds a wall of separation between church ...

James Madison suggested the idea of developing a congressional library at the new capital Washington City. Before that, the capital was located in Philadelphia and New York City.

UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg died on January 28. He was born on September 28, 1922.

Barbara Coleman came to see Carpenters’ Hall, the site of the original Continental Congress convening in 1774 and where the ...

As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed ...

Presidential decrees have evolved into powerful tools that significantly impact American governance, shaping policy decisions ...

On Jan. 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library of 6,487 volumes. After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814 ...

Since we are now at a time when the power of the president, Congress and the courts are in tension and generating legal ...

Vance is undoubtedly setting the stage for the inevitable: Trump’s flouting of federal court orders, which, given Congress’s ...

And I REALLY wanted to know that… Of course, the federal government has been wasting Americans’ money for a long time. A few ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of ...