“As the Civil War’s first Christmas neared, a pair of young lovers, Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, a Confederate soldier and his eventu...

“The Declaration of Independence... [is the] declaratory charter of our rights,  and of the rights of man.”  --Thomas Jefferson The Washingt...

This letter was written near the beginning of the American Civil War from Sullivan Ballou, a 32-year-old officer in the Union Army, to his 2...

“Religious freedom is a fundamental human right and the first among rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution in the First Amendme...

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other out ...

Dunking of Baptist Preachers in Virginia (1778) By: Joseph Loconte  "A wide-eyed and youthful James Madison, traveling in Culpeper Coun...

“A young boy approached Mark Twain one day, after spotting the famous author standing alone on a stone bridge in Redding, Connecticut. Twai...