Oak Hill, built by enslaved people more than 200 years ago, is the only home belonging to our earliest presidents that still ...

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History reenactor Michael Halbert brought Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette to life as part of a 24-state tour that ...

Saturday morning's reenactment and plaque commemoration in Johnson Square marked the anniversary of Lafayette's grand tour of the United States.

Advertisement Their influence predates the Revolutionary War. John Adams rose to prominence ... As secretary of state under President James Monroe, John Quincy orchestrated the acquisition of ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign.

More than 40 years after the Revolutionary War ended, Lafayette certainly was ... had written to President James Monroe expressing his longing to “seek those friends of my youth with whom ...

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, known simply as “Lafayette” in the U.S., was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George ...