The White House, Washington, D.C. 1804. Thomas Jefferson was frustrated. It was not the burdens of office that bothered him. It was his Bible. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic words of ...

reading from a piece of paper. Historians do know the quote — because it has been falsely attributed to Jefferson for years. There is no proof Jefferson ever said it, according to the Thomas ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson sparked an unusual religion controversy last week when he recited a prayer in front of Congress after being reelected as speaker of the House. The problem, at least ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

James Madison suggested the idea of developing a congressional library at the new capital Washington City. Before that, the ...

“It is said each day of his eight years of the presidency and every day thereafter until his death, President Thomas Jefferson recited this prayer,“ he continued, reading aloud from that day’s House ...