In 1815, with Commodore Stephen Decatur’s guns trained on his harbor, the Dey of Algiers signed a treaty with the United States, then told the Americans what he thought of it: My power has been ...

The new exhibition, which shows how the document was edited, also features an early copy of the Gettysburg Address ...

Opening Shot: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," narrator Devin E. Haqq recites from the Declaration of Independence as we see a shot of Independence Hall in ...

One of America’s most quoted political lines came from a private letter written during a time of unrest, but its context is often left out.

Written in 1787, more than a decade after American independence, Jefferson's famous letter to James Madison debated the power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In June 2024, Snopes received an email from a reader asking about a quote purportedly originating from Founding Father and third U ...

The fact that the quill of David d’Angers’s statue of the third US president broke during the nation’s 250th anniversary provides more than an irresistible symbolic trope.

In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson expressed concern over the failure of "rotation in office." A Monticello historian said that concern was likely in reference to the presidency. We found ...

The international peace-making organization Search for Common Ground is honoring three descendants of Thomas Jefferson for "their work to bridge the divide within their family and heal the legacy of ...

Archaeologists have been studying Monticello, the 18th-century plantation and home of Thomas Jefferson, for decades. Yet they’re still making new discoveries. Most recently, researchers unearthed the ...