Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third US president, shaped American democracy ...

Candidates sound off on hot button issue but have no ideas . (courtesy of palmbeachpost . com) Simply stated, this November ...

George Washington, commander of Continental Army These are times of madness, self-deceit, oligarchy and rapine.

This number is a sad reflection of the state of the American church, and the blame is placed on both those in the pews and in ...

Historian Joseph Ellis On May 15, 1776, the delegates to the Continental Congress passed John Adams' resolution "to declare the United Colonies free and independent states." In July 1776 ...

South Carolina's history is deeply woven into the fabric of the United States, spanning from the early colonial period t ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have been awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on global wealth inequality.

But the idea that one religion or group of religions in particular should be 'that of the United States,' that was far from the minds of national leaders, in part because they all knew that the 13 ...

In response, 12 of the 13 colonies sent representatives to a Continental Congress in Philadelphia to draft a united response ... for independence on June 7, 1776, Adams had to choose.

To the Editor, Although the first census of the United States was not taken until 1790, it has been estimated that around ...