This Father’s Day, let us honor John Adams as a Founding Father and a father who wanted to secure a bright future for his children.

John and Abigail Adams’s letters provide an extraordinary window on the revolt brewing 250 years ago. ... as Thomas Jefferson later put it, “our Lives, our Fortunes, ...

John suffered through the heartbreak of outliving most of his children. His only surviving daughter, Abigail , died of breast cancer in 1813 at age 48 in the family home; his second son, Charles ...

He wrote to Abigail that "the second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America." The ...

Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the greatest breakup letter ever written. One could say that the audacious statement crafted by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin ...

In June of 1826, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Roger C. Weightman, declining an invitation to come to Washington, D.C. to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Napoleon Sarony, “The Declaration of Independence,” 1843–1853. Harry T. Peters, “America on Stone.” Lithography Collection. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History This hand-colored ...

When Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, we imagine fireworks, flags and a dramatic reading of the Declaration of ...

Amid criticism from professors and students asking that she not use the university’s founder as “a moral compass,” University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan is defending her use of a ...

Jefferson’s dream of a new and better world at last opened to men, with a whole continent at their back over which as freeholders they could slowly expand for ages, has passed. We have swallowed ...

The Jefferson Parish Department of Streets deserves a truckload of kudos for the recent resurfacing of Bonnabel Boulevard between Metairie Road and Interstate 10. Not only was the job done ...