Tag: Thomas Jefferson
After 1776, the founders designed a government that accounts for ‘a...
Donovan Fifield, University of South Carolina
The parades, reenactments and fireworks are over. And in the aftermath of Americans’...
For nearly 250 years, the US has had eyes on Latin...
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Miami University
Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, the United States has ramped up...
From Augustine to Jefferson, the idea of separating church and state...
Steven K. Green, Willamette University
The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission released its report on June 26, 2026, on...
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed about the American Revolution’s meaning...
Marianne Holdzkom, Kennesaw State University
Like Americans today, the people living in the United States in 1826 were preparing...
What the Declaration of Independence does – and doesn’t – say...
Thomas Tweed, University of Notre Dame
On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the...
In his efforts to remake federal architecture, Trump repudiates the ‘republican...
Kevin D. Murphy, Vanderbilt University
Sand was thrown in the gears of President Donald Trump’s grand White House ballroom...
1776’s Declaration of Independence inspired Washington’s troops to fight against the...
Christopher Magra, University of Tennessee
A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of...
Philadelphia’s founding years were rife with conspiracy fears about ‘godless’ Freemasons...
Derek Arnold, Villanova University
How conspiracies spread has changed immensely over the history of the United States, as technology...
EXPLORING NATURE
How did it feel to be an American colonist in 1776?...
Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Institution
Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys,...
