No one knows if Benjamin Franklin actually urged his fellow patriots to hang together lest they would hang separately in British gallows. That comment came at the time of the American Revolution and ...

Irish-born Thomas Burke died before his 40th birthday, but the North Carolinian lived long enough to wield sharp tools in constructing America’s foundation. In the spring of 1777, Burke was laboring ...

Everyone learns, by the end of high school, that the United States had a constitution before the Constitution — the Articles of Confederation. Last week, I wrote about why I think it is important to ...