One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...

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

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

Throughout the entire history of left-wing and working-class organizing in the United States, the participation in and ...

On Thursday, February 13, at 6 P.M., the Louis Miller Museum invites you to an eye-opening program presented by Phyllis ...

Feeling a little stir-crazy during the pandemic, author Andrew Lawler took a trip to visit his mom in his hometown of Norfolk. While perusing a Hampton Roads bookstore with her, he picked up a ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Since the ouster of Syria’s longtime dictator on Dec. 8, Egyptian leaders have watched events in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with grim-faced vigilance, knowing well that revolutionary fire has ...

He cut a wide swath through colonial high society, discussing architecture with Thomas Jefferson and planter concerns with George Washington. Then came the revolutionary tempest that had been ...

This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson ... Yet, neither of Jefferson’s inaugurals were even faintly like President Trump’s extraordinary revolutionary second inaugural.