Alien And Sedition Acts Were Reviled In Their Time, And John Adams Was Not Sorry To See Them Go
When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new ...
Trump Follows Other Presidents Who Promised Government Cuts. Here’s What They Actually Did.
As is the case with Elon Musk’s efforts, efficiency drives are often attacked as ploys to replace one party’s loyalists with ...
Electoral College for dummies
As you will be reminded countless times, when you cast your vote in Tuesday's presidential election, you're not taking part in a nationwide popular vote, but rather helping decide who your state's ...
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Flashback: Robert Brown on life in Basingstoke in 1805
THE recent feature about Horatio Nelson brought about an interest as to what life was like in England, and especially in Basingstoke, in 1805.
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UVA, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Announce 2025 Jefferson Medalists
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced the recipients of the 2025 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals, awarded each year to national and ...
When U.S. presidents dabbled in science…
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are two of the greatest presidents that the U.S. has seen. You probably know that ...
The Document That Has Uncomfortable Lessons for Trump
Mr. Trump isn’t actually guilty of one of Jefferson’s biggest beefs about King George: “He has dissolved Representative ...
The Founders Were Afraid for the Country, Too
Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...