On April 30, 1803, American diplomats in Paris reached an agreement with the French government to purchase the Louisiana Territory for approximately $16 million. It’s a massive but imprecisely defined ...

President Trump is testing principle of "checks and balances" like rarely before, signing executive orders, closing or ...

Students, families, faculty and staff came together Saturday at the Johnson College campus as the Scranton school celebrated ...

James Madison, Jefferson’s Secretary of State, told Marbury to pound sand: no commission for you. Charles Lee, Adams’s former Attorney general, asked the Supreme Court to order that Marbury ...

The Boston Celtics entered game 3 of their series against the New York Knicks under a lot of pressure. The The post Richard Jefferson Shoots Back at Dave Portnoy on ‘Knicks Jersey’ Comments appeared ...

He described the U.S. as being “held in usufruct,” referencing a letter by Thomas Jefferson to James Madison. Jefferson, who owned a plantation, believed that land held in usufruct means that ...

His successor, Thomas Jefferson, and Secretary of State James Madison ignored them. William Marbury, an Adams justice of the peace appointee, asked the Supreme Court to compel Jefferson and ...

Some of the transactions do not include a transfer price because no money was exchanged for the property. All deeds are recorded in the Berks County recorder of deeds office and are a matter of public ...

Both Mount Vernon, home to George Washington, and Montpelier, home to James Madison ... with slavery notes that some presidents (Jefferson and Madison) never freed their slaves but fails to ...

During James Madison's presidency, we fought the War of 1812 over British interference with our trade and impressment of sailors. Obviously, Adams, Jefferson and Madison aren't strange interlopers ...

James Madison, often called the father of the Bill ... He wrote “the principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society,” but he also knew that America, and Jefferson ...