As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

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

While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.

I was also gripped by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Cape, £22) – a philosophical novel masquerading as a bizarre dystopia of ...

Carl Joe Williams, an artist from New Orleans, created a painting for the Victoria Mansion that addresses the slave-owning ...

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...

The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

A Mississippi city has unveiled a historical marker to honor the story of an African prince who spent 40 years enslaved on a Natchez plantation ...

Slave owners tried very hard to justify themselves. In the early years of the 19th century, wave after wave of preposterous ...