Spending time with my family this Thanksgiving week reminds me that life comes with no guarantees. This truth holds special ...

The Virginia Capitol Foundation's Christmas ornament features George Washington, rendered in the marble statue French ...

Rubio, at only 53 years old and with a significant presidential run in his past, seems to have accepted the secretary of ...

The musical sensation Hamilton has recently started its residency in Wales Millennium Centre and it is a must-see.

The reasons for Monroe’s relegation to the second tier of presidents has partly to do with how he has been compared to his predecessors: his mentor, Thomas Jefferson; a sometime rival and sometime ...

In March 1801, after the deeply partisan presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson rose in the U.S. Capitol to take the ...

The word secession is not in the Constitution, but the Civil War Era answered the question of whether states may secede from ...

For Thanksgiving, I published a short history of Jefferson’s and his Democrats’ reaction to John Adams’ fearmongering for ...

In the early 1800s, Washington, D.C., was in its early stages of development, and the political climate at the time was rough ...

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those ...