The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and across ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a statue of Thomas Jefferson depicting him drafting the Declaration of Independence at a ...

A few generations from immigrating to this land from Europe, this country’s founders considered the massive forests, lush ...

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4, 1776?

They died on the same day: The Fourth of July, 1826 – 50 years to the day after the Declaration. Historians say that Adams’ final words were: “Thomas Jefferson survives,” as if consoling himself with ...

The US Constitution says any natural-born citizen over 35 who has lived in the country for at least 14 years can run for ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

Thomas Jefferson, steeped in Enlightenment philosophy, wrote that we have the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the ...

Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of our enigmatic and brilliant third president. Part 1 at 8 PM — Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, ...

A new American Revolution is going on in the Supreme Court. In recent years, it has issued four major decisions curtailing ...