In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

Thomas Jefferson was an elusive, contradictory person. He was sort of against slavery, and he sort of wasn’t. He extolled limited government, then purchased Louisiana — doubling the size of the nation ...

I recently witnessed, in the course of a few hours, a stunning contrast between three presidents, Brad Bull says.

Who’s going to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States? While everyone else celebrated the 10th anniversary of the critically acclaimed blockbuster ...

The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore,” which will be published in November. One hundred years after its initial ...

In “Pride and Pleasure,” the biographer Amanda Vaill tells the story of these complex women with warmth, humor and insight.

The working life of famed photographer who captured Second World War and high fashion for Vogue on display at North Vancouver ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mix of American history, theatrical diversity and contemporary hip-hop is returning to Hartford for a two-week run Nov. 4-16.

CNN’s Erin Burnett talks with Claire Howorth of Vanity Fair, which obtained the first exclusive excerpt of Epstein survivor ...

The Friends of Laurel Hill, a nonprofit formed in 1978, has been offering tours since the group’s inception as a way to raise ...

I am now in distress, in ill health, & in a forreign [sic] country,” Hay wrote in one letter from 1839, pleading its reciever ...