As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

The first American presidential sex scandal never went on trial, but rumors have persisted to this day that President and founding father Thomas ... Madison stated that his mother had been ...

The Kentucky Republican has, after all, been caught pushing fake quotes from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Paul, however, is not without ...

Any worthwhile list of Pantheon-level American icons must include men like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison ... that when President Donald Trump has asked visitors to the Oval Office ...

James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution ... sponsored the Bill of Rights. As president, Madison helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party of Jeffersonian ideals.

the United States’ third president “gave time and energy to particular problems that interested him,” says James P. McClure, general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson project at ...

President Trump plunged the global economy into chaos on April 2 by announcing a wave of tariffs on U.S. imports. In a ...

Kennedy declared the event the greatest collection of talent ever brought together at the White House, “with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson ... But as James Madison advised ...

With the aid of his clandestine patron Thomas Jefferson, Scottish "scandalmonger" James Callender launched a print campaign against President John Adams that would make the election of 1800 one ...