Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hailed from Virginia and considered slavery ...

Ms. Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin. “How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in ...

Proponents of this ideology say our Founding Fathers intended this when they wrote our Constitution. But did they? The answer is complicated. Adherents to Christian Nationalism argue that the ...

A precious copy of the U.S. Constitution fetched roughly $23 million more than its estimated value at auction. As part of the "Prussian scheme," some of America's Founding Fathers invited the ...

For the Founding Fathers, the pursuit of happiness meant the pursuit of long-term virtue, National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen told a BYU audience. He had 5,000 recite together the ...

Sen. Ted Cruz joined other X users in roasting Al Sharpton for invoking the names of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson ...

And the controversy extends to the Founding Fathers of the United States ... Enter the men who forged the Constitution in order to establish a “more perfect union”. In the preamble of ...