“Dolley [Payne Todd] had been widowed less than a year when she first met James [Madison].  Like others living in Philadelphia at the tim...

  “John Adams, a 24-year-old lawyer in Braintree, Massachusetts, first met the teenage Abigail Smith in the summer of 1759 at her father’s h...

“[Benjamin Franklin] ended up in Philadelphia, a place unlike much of the world. There were Lutherans and Moravians and Quakers and even Jew...

“William Wilberforce was a deeply religious English member of parliament and social reformer who was very influential in the abolition of...

“Religion, Morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, Schools and the means of education s...

On July 4, 1776 Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were appointed by the Continental Congress to design a seal for the ...

The Anglican church (or the Church of England) was the official church of the colony of Virginia.  In colonial Virginia, during what h...