President Trump is testing principle of "checks and balances" like rarely before, signing executive orders, closing or sharply reducing government agencies, and denigrating judges who ruled against ...

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Thomas Gift, an associate professor of ... cheese" from Elder John Leland of Cheshire, Massachusetts in 1801. According to Mr Jefferson's historic research institute, Monticello, a Republican ...

Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton became bitter enemies in the first few years of the 19th century. Their rivalry in New York as prominent leaders of different political parties had intensified and ...

On April 30, 1803, American diplomats in Paris reached an agreement with the French government to purchase the Louisiana Territory for approximately $16 million. It’s a massive but imprecisely defined ...

Among his many restoration efforts, he once oversaw the re-roofing of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Born in Butler, Pennsylvania, he was the son of W. Ralph McCracken, who ran a farm ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked, as Founding Fathers and presidents. They even died on the same day — July 4, 1826. At the Continental Congress and on diplomatic ...

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), commonly called Jefferson Lab or JLab, is a U.S. national laboratory located in Newport News, Virginia. Since June 1, 2006, it has been ...

Tarleton returned to England, where he represented Liverpool in the House of Commons. Notably, he defended the slave trade, ...

A recent letter to the editor states that “our founders insisted on the separation of church and state in our constitution.” Not true. The phrase “separation of church and state” appears nowhere in ...

Jefferson Parish will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of its new JPRD Pickleball Complex at Mike Miley Playground in Metairie. The new facility is part of Jefferson ...