Independence Day is July 4. We took a look at how some of the Founding Fathers of America made their fortune. Many of them ...

The same animating spirit that drove the Founding Fathers led Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Ford to create business empires.

Best-selling biographer Walter Isaacson speaks to Christiane Amanpour about the legacy of Ted Turner, and his latest book ...

This long-standing debate over the founders’ religious intentions has gained renewed intensity with the approaching 250th ...

With Father’s Day approaching, we should remind ourselves that the Founding Fathers were not only America’s symbolic fathers, but many were pulling dual duties as real fathers as well. John Adams was ...

Samuel Adams discovered his calling in midlife when he got involved in politics and picked up his quill pen to write about it. Adams became a prolific writer of pro-independence essays published in ...

History tells us a lot about the signers of the Declaration of Independence, but not much is known about their dads. There were 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence and are considered to ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills got the obvious out of the way when asked about what America's founding fathers would have thought of the presidential election between former president ...

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, 56 men met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to commit treason against the most powerful empire on Earth. Representing 13 colonies of that empire, ...

What would the founding fathers say? You can’t write about American independence, especially this year, without fielding that ...

As the relationship between America and Britain deteriorated throughout the late 1700s, John was frequently called away from home to participate in both the First and Second Continental Congresses.