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

Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a ...

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

The crux of Jefferson’s letter is his explanation that the First Amendment “thus builds a wall of separation between church ...

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

Paul frames his story as a long-running battle between Marshall and Thomas Jefferson ... the new secretary of state, James Madison, declared the commissions incomplete, and refused to deliver ...

On a June evening in 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted one of the ... The vast majority were in the north, leading Virginians like James Madison to fear loss of influence for the state that many ...

On Jan. 30, 1815, President James Madison approved an act of Congress appropriating $23,950 to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library of 6,487 volumes. After capturing Washington, D.C. in 1814 ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison ... Anti-Federalists such as Thomas Jefferson feared that a concentration of central ...