America celebrates its 250th anniversary as a nation on July 4, 2026, the date the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

“A peculiar thing about Thomas Jefferson’s house servants was that ... “This is the kind of emotional violence of slavery … that at any moment, based on somebody else’s whims, a person ...

Virginia and the Forging of a Nation” opens in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s famous speech made at St. John's Church in Richmond.

But Thomas Jefferson also enslaved some 600 people. Jefferson’s words and Jefferson’s actions can be hard to reconcile. How can a man who believed that all men are equal also have owned slaves? How ...

Randy W. Browne and Andrew Lawler expose the ironies and contradictions of slavery as well as the mixed motivations of Black and white people. Thomas Jefferson, an early opponent of slavery without ...

Granville Sentinel columnist Jeff Gill shares his thoughts on the Declaration of Independence and the Founding Fathers' intentions behind their words.

"I learned (what) a family tree represents," said second-grader Sincere Campbell. "They represent our identity." ...

A man of many talents, Thomas Jefferson was the third president of ... He made his opposition to slavery blatantly clear during his campaigning and his victory provoked a crisis as not all were ...

Trump critics are hypocrites who didn't criticize Biden power grabs. They are also ignorant of major constitutional crises ...