Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics ...

So what were the ideas and ideals that drove the Founding Fathers to take up arms and ... huddled masses yearning to breathe free, George Washington noted that for “the poor, the needy ...

They failed to rise above their time and place, though Washington (but not Jefferson) freed his slaves. But history abounds with ironies. These men, the founding fathers and brothers, established ...

One Founding Father thought we were celebrating on the ... Although the towering tribute to President George Washington is an icon of the Washington, D.C. skyline, there might be a few things ...