From August 1784 to September 1789, Thomas Jefferson lived in Paris, France, where he was stationed as the United States Minister to France. He adored his life there, absorbing the music, architecture ...

George Washington was sworn in as the first U. S. President at an inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789, held on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street, a block east of what is now the New York ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle In late 1803, the ...

When news broke last week that the Department of Justice had secured an indictment of former FBI director James Comey, commentators wasted no time in calling the move “unprecedented.” As the New York ...

President James Monroe wrote a letter to former President Thomas Jefferson asking advice on foreign policy. The question was whether to accept an offer from Great Britain to issue a joint declaration ...