Constitution Day commemorates a signal achievement, one creating a government strong enough to maintain order but with powers ...
Thomas Jefferson played no direct role in authoring ... despite the fact that much of it was the work of his friend and ...
As modest as James Madison was in appearance and demeanor ... From early March 1791 until he set sail with his friend Thomas Jefferson up the lakes of northern New York in May, Madison burned ...
NEWLY DISCOVERED THOMAS JEFFERSON LETTER DESCRIBES THE REVOLUTIONARY ... asked if someone else might speak, and his friend James Madison obliged. But Madison didn’t have to say much.
One of Thomas Jefferson's first acts as president ... On July 17, Lear wrote to Secretary of State James Madison: "I handed my Commission to the General [Toussaint], who asked me if I had not ...
The bad guys are getting away with it. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who won 67% of the popular vote in Venezuela’s presidential ...
UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg is celebrating his 102nd birthday this month. He was born on Sept. 28 ...
A new biography explores the long-running rivalry between the Federalist chief justice John Marshall and his Democratic–Republican second cousin, President Thomas Jefferson. In the American ...
On this second day of Constitution Week, we look at James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, who was a delegate from ...
Technology — some new, some not so new — is allowing archaeologists and historians to tell fuller, more accurate stories ...
In 1966, two Russian literary dissidents, Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky, were tried and convicted on charges of ...
On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one of the ... The vast majority were in the north, leading Virginians like James Madison to fear loss of influence for the state that many ...