When envisioning its major exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, the Museum of the American Revolution sought out objects that represent the document’s ...

Thomas Jefferson was ... by the bloody excesses of the Revolution. In the election of 1796 Adams narrowly defeated Jefferson. For the first and last time in American history, president and vice ...

Thomas Jefferson was ... by the bloody excesses of the Revolution. In the election of 1796 Adams narrowly defeated Jefferson. For the first and last time in American history, president and vice ...

Thomas Jefferson first came to Williamsburg to attend William ... the distinguished jurist who was to become the first professor of law at William & Mary in 1779. In 1772, the rector asked Jefferson ...

Civic education is essential to the preservation of our constitutional inheritance. We forget that at our peril.

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson ... law and both embraced the cause of American independence when the Revolution began. But while Marshall ...

Between the Revolutionary War and the First Gulf ... Benedict Arnold raided Richmond in January 1781, which prompted Thomas Jefferson, then the governor, to flee (a decision that haunted his ...

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

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

As Callista and I sat in the Rotunda listening to President Trump’s inaugural address, I realized that it was among the most revolutionary ... I read President Thomas Jefferson’s first and ...