The room where President James Monroe crafted part of his famed doctrine exudes a quiet, stately atmosphere. Inside the enclosed west porch a few footsteps away, a quarried-stone floor marked by ...

A growing number of conservative leaders are pushing states to upend the long-standing U.S. constitutional right to free ...

I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, what she made of the Adams references. “While the two letters to his ...

The Fulcrum introduces Congress Bill Spotlight, a weekly report by Jesse Rifkin, focusing on the noteworthy legislation of ...

Barton relayed Michaux’s idea to the society’s vice president, Thomas Jefferson ... President Washington directed Jefferson to send the French government a bill of particulars against Genêt.

Jefferson County was making its pitch to Kikkoman, the Japan-based food products manufacturer best known for its soy sauce, to get the multibillion-dollar company to choose the city of Jefferson for a ...

The amendment was proposed after the 1796 election resulted in a president (John Adams) and vice president (Thomas Jefferson) from opposing parties, and the 1800 election led to a tie between ...

A Missouri House committee advanced an amended Senate bill Monday that would end the University of Missouri's exclusive permission to grant doctoral degrees. The new provision is tacked onto ...

Four El Paso eateries received borderline scores during inspections conducted between April 7-13. A passing score is 70 or ...

The Fabulous Ordinary” is the perfect title of Georgann Eubanks’ new book. Its full title is “The Fabulous Ordinary Discovering the Natural Wonders of the Wild South.” ...