“Northern Family, Southern Ties” is the result of three years of research on why New Jersey aligned more closely with southern states than its northern neighbors on practices regarding slavery. The ...

Walking into the Hoover Institution’s Traitel Building on a cool Monday morning two weeks ago, I was immediately confronted with posters of Professor Thomas Sowell’s most important quote: “It doesn’t ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...