George Washington was probably sterile. The Father of Our Country never fathered a child. George Washington began cultivating his presidential demeanor at age 15 by copying the Rules of Civility an...

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will...

United States PopulationTotal population of the United States in 1790: 3,929,214 Total slave population of the United States in 1790: 697,681 Total population of the United States in 1800: 5,308,48...

Alien and Sedition Acts, Alien & Sedition Acts Passed at the height of a nationwide war hysteria set off by the XYZ Affair, the Alien and Sedition Acts sharply curtailed civil liberties and the rig...