This was such a major problem that in 1790, President George Washington said in his first State of the Union address that ...

We are far, far at the moment from the theoretical possibility of Donald Trump facing justice for the crimes he is now authorizing or committing himself. But it’s highly relevant to remember that the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...