“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people tha...

“By the latter part of the 1790s Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had become bitter political opponents. The friendship they had forged as...

S peaking of the debates for Independence in the Continental Congress in 1776, thirty-seven years afterwards, Thomas Jefferson declared t...

Abraham Lincoln issued a Presidential Proclamation on February 19, 1862, requesting that all citizens gather on the 22nd and celebra...

On April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States of America.  “Since nearly first light that ...

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, ind...

Our Founding Fathers were concerned with political issues of liberty, equality, law, and self-government. However, above the rest, they w...