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

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

D.G. Martin discusses The Mecklenburg Resolves and The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence as America's 250th birthday ...

Engraving from 1881 commemorating the first presidential cabinet. From left to right: Henry Knox, Thomas Jefferson, Edmond Randolph, Alexander Hamilton, and President George Washington.

But one of the most consequential founders, Thomas Jefferson, who had numerous accomplishments on his resume, chose to list only three of them on his tombstone: that he authored the Declaration of ...

John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. Muhammad Ali. Kobe Bryant. Julia Child. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rosa Parks. Elvis Presley. Babe Ruth. Frank Sinatra. These musicians ...

Thomas Jefferson, for example, declined to use money set aside for gunboats in the early 1800s. When the president won't spend money that Congress has set aside, it's called impoundment.

That’s another fiction. The earliest historical example — President Thomas Jefferson declined to spend $50,000 on gunboats — isn’t an example at all: Congress authorized Jefferson to pay ...

But people in Haiti are more focused on the problematic policies unleashed by the 1801 installation of Thomas Jefferson, an enslaver who feared that Haiti’s ongoing revolution would inspire ...

Unlike the other infamous “Alien and Sedition Acts,” the AEA received wide bipartisan support, including from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and is still good law. It provides that when ...

This reporter noted the rarity of the event at this level after St. Albert hosted Thomas Jefferson for a Coaches vs. Cancer night during Monday’s 54-48 Falcons win. Cannon agreed. “I love what ...