Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a local Philadelphia merchant while he was in town for the signing. He also ...

While searching for a possible link between Francis Bishop, one of my ancestors, and Thomas Jefferson, Bishop’s neighbor in Albemarle County, Virginia, I stumbled upon a memorandum book Jefferson kept ...

The seminal event in American history blazes to vivid life in this most unconventional of Broadway hits. 1776 puts a human face on the pages of history as we see the men behind the national icons: ...

Talmage Boston “interviewed” George Washington and Thomas Jefferson at a Dallas event featuring historical interpreters.

July 1776 has a place in American history books as the month in which the United States declared its Independence. It is now a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the declaration of ...

TO UPDATE the first edition of his 1801 manual, Thomas Jefferson handwrote annotations citing legal precedents he believed should further guide Congress. In 2025, Alexander’s research recently ...