Specifically, Jefferson highlights the importance of the battle of Bunker Hill, which was fought on June 17, 1775, during the early stages of the Revolutionary War. The letter from Thomas ...

A letter written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson that had been lost to historians for over a century has surfaced. The letter, which is priced at $80,000, is up for sale at Ardmore, Pa.-based h… ...

An original letter from Thomas Jefferson sent from Annapolis in 1783, which advocates for the right to bear arms, will go up ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

The war for independence is aptly called the Revolutionary War, but it was revolutionary only in the sense that we revolted against the “establishment of tyranny.” ...

Veteran historical interpreters portraying Thomas Jefferson and George Washington engaged in a conversation about their roles in the Revolutionary War and the constitutional government that followed.

Jefferson noted future president Gen. Andrew Jackson’s seminal victory at the Battle of New Orleans -- the final battle of the War of 1812 -- that led to America’s victory.

In a 1785 letter to the Marquis de Chastellux, a French writer and historian who fought on the colonists’ side during the Revolutionary War, Thomas Jefferson outlined the dominant personal ...

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello hosted a conversation between Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson as ... especially their roles in shaping Revolutionary War-era America and the constitutional ...