If you know the name Joel Barlow, it's probably because Redding and Easton's high school ...

George Clark's Feb. 21 letter, which claims the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli confirms our founding fathers intended to create a secular country, is not correct. Article 11 (which Clark is referencing ...

The background of the Treaty of Tripoli began with a meeting between Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the Ambassador from Tripoli in London in 1786.

THOSE WORDS, PENNED IN ARTICLE 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, are as succinct a statement as we have from the Founding Fathers on the role of religion in our government.