The soldiers from Ft. Stoddert, Louisiana Territory, captured the fugitive Aaron Burr on a February morning in 1807, on a muddy road near the hamlet of Wakefield. Burr's fall from grace seemed total.

The oil painting is believed to be a portrait of U.S. Founding Father Aaron Burr and his wife Theodosia Bartow Prevost Burr—a brilliant woman who advised her husband throughout this career and ...

Jumel's farm in Carmansville. Mme. Jumel (the divorced wife of the late Aaron Burr) claimed that an adjoining owner had encroached upon her premises, so as to take from her about two acres of land ...