Why did the American Revolution succeed while so many revolutions that followed result in so much bloodletting? The answer is not that...

Tents going up on the edge of town. Overflowing crowds and preachers shouting fire and brimstone, and everyone half-expecting the skies...

It was after the American Revolution, after everything had been settled and the future of the new republic looked promising. Thomas...

If you've ever dreamed of spending an evening chatting with one the Founding Fathers, have I got a book for you. The title sounds...

Washington D.C., March 4, 1861 -- Imagine the man being administered the Presidential oath is not Abraham Lincoln but Jefferson Davis....

The Scots invented the United States. The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the free-market economy:...

Saturday, December 12, 1789 -- A coach departs the Executive Mansion at 1 Cherry Street in New York City and heads into the farm country...

It was not the Monticello we know today. The house Thomas Jefferson returned to in 1789--after four years in France--was not that much...