Written in argument against Filmer's  Patriarcha  (which argued for the divine right of kings to ru...

The following quotes are from: John Locke, “Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil-Government,” Two Treatises of G...

"I wish you would ever write me a Letter half as long as I write you; and tell me if you may where your Fleet are gone? What sort of D...

On January 1, 1802, President Thomas Jefferson received a thirteen-foot mammoth cheese weighing some 1,200 pounds.  It was delivere...

By: Tony Williams On January 24, 1774, James Madison wrote to a college friend praising the Boston Tea Party, which had occurred only week...

After George Washington was sworn-in as the first president of the new American republic on April 30, 1789, he delivered his First Ina...

By: J. David Gowdy On February 12th we celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. He once said: “I have never had a feeling politically that ...