the Founding Fathers are probably rolling in their graves. Actually, if you believe any of the legends coming out of Carpenters’ Hall in Philadelphia, it could be that they’re still hanging ...

But July 4 became the date we celebrate because Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence had more zing. The Founding Fathers were mindlessly venerated for hundreds of years, until ...

There were 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and 39 of the Constitution, all of whom should be considered Founding Fathers. However, many historians like to include famous Americans ...

Many of these attacks and the canceling of the Founding Fathers comes down to the subject of slavery. The practice of slavery was — and in some places, remains — obscene, a crime against humanity.

Lists containing the names of some of the U.S. Founding Fathers and their respective ages on July 4, 1776, the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted, have circulated online since at ...

Americans in great numbers are rediscovering their founding fathers ... He is the father of our religious freedom. It is, next to the words of our independence, his greatest gift, save only ...