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America is nearing the 250th anniversary of its revolutionary birth, the Declaration of Independence. July 4, 2026, will mark ...
An original letter written byThomas Jefferson sold for the $90,000 asking price and will return to Maryland, the state where ...
America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...
This story accompanies the article about Lafayette200 events, "Marquis de Lafayette toured Lancaster 200 years ago." ...
Could New Invention Clean Up Cargo Fleets? (Maria) The author writes, “In industrial park alongside the River Lea in the ...
On June 18, 1825, two-hundred years ago this week, General Lafayette returned to Boston from France to participate in the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the American Revolutionary War, and to ...
You couldn’t make “Hamilton” today. Half the audience would want to cancel its protagonist, Alexander Hamilton, for being a slave owner and an adulterer. The other half would accuse it of being “woke” ...
America divorcing France would have been news to Gilbert du Motier, better known as the Marquis de Lafayette. His commitment to the new country not only helped secure its independence, but it also ...
“This group was really special, and you took it for granted when you were doing it,” Diggs (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson) said of having the rare opportunity to reunite.
In this 1832 caricature, French artist Auguste-Jean-Jacques Hervieu scribbles away on his epic canvas portraying LaFayette’s arrival in Cincinnati, painting in many of his friends and patrons who ...