Sen Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is under fire for a Fourth of July tweet that managed to include both a false claim and a false quote. Hawley tweeted a quote he claimed to be from Founding Father Patrick ...

The new book “Invoking the Fathers: Dangerous Metaphors and Founding Myths in Congressional Politics” by Dr. Sarah Kornfield of the Hope College communication faculty, published this month by Johns ...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) came under fire on the Fourth of July for tweeting a false historical quote pushing components of Christian Nationalism ideology and falsely attributing it to a founding father ...

Ben Shapiro takes on the ultimate Founding Fathers challenge in this patriotic game of “Who Said It?” Can he match iconic quotes to the right American legends—Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, and more ...

George Washington once wrote that fellow Founding Father William Blount should be "held in detestation by all good men." Abigail Adams hoped Blount would find himself on the wrong end of a guillotine.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills got the obvious out of the way when asked about what America's founding fathers would have thought of the presidential election between former president ...

Founding Father Benjamin Franklin is considered to have written many famed expressions, some legitimately and others without evidence. There is no documented evidence that Franklin ever made this ...

'Pursuit of Happiness' by Jeffrey Rosen. On the right, Rosen at the First Amendment Summit. (Photo of Rosen by Cory Sharber/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what ...

A remarkable aspect of history is how many moments featured down the centuries weren’t actually seen as so significant at the time. And vice versa, there are many moments that were seen as critical by ...