This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1773, George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker, wrote of participating in the Boston Tea Party of the previous day.Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Had Jefferson not listened to Madison, and had he listened instead to Edmund Pendleton, the senior Virginia statesman of the day instead. Pendleton wrote a very long letter to his former student -- that’s what Jefferson was at the time, a former law student of Pendleton’s -- begging him...Read More