Like millions of Americans, you probably have strong feelings about how the president should lead, what Congress should do and how the courts should rule, but do you know what gives them those powers ...

The English town where one of America's Founding Fathers, and the world's first international revolutionaries, sparked a ...

Donald Trump’s second presidency is best seen as a revolt against elites, a revolt that has succeeded in sidelining ...

Many founding fathers were unable to sign the Declaration of Independence or Constitution due to travel difficulties.  Others ...

A Norfolk council has begun issuing long-term bans for members of the public after its meetings were repeatedly disrupted by protestors. Thetford Town Council has already excluded one person after a ...

At the beginning of the American Revolution, the British identified the Hudson River as key terrain. Taking control of the ...

I am not equating national elections with the times around the American Revolution and 1776. The Pilgrams landed in 1620; ...

A lot has changed since 18th-century writer Thomas Paine penned his famous “Common Sense,” a 47-page pamphlet that galvanized ...

We had everybody, and it was beautiful. It was a historic realignment, uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense. You know, we're the party of common sense.

Thomas Jefferson, who began so many things ... to deal charitably with the faults of a benefactor who wrote The Crisis and Common Sense, who conceived the planing-machine and the iron bridge.

where local hero Thomas Paine lived from 1768 to 1774. After his period as an exciseman in Lewes, Paine moved to Philadelphia ...