Alexander Hamilton

Interposition was a claim that American federalism needed to preserve some balance between state and national authority.

1796, the first contested presidential election.

The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?

A Pulitzer Prize winner punches down.

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.

It can be hard to know what the Founders intended when they didn't know, either.

The young Founder’s evocative account of the tempest inspired people to send him to the Colonies for a formal education.

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

When Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all.

Reflections on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the power of the presidency.

The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.

Over 1000 historians have signed this statement condemning President Trump's actions.

Three misunderstood aspects of our governmental system, and the truth pulled directly from the Federalist Papers

It’s doubtful even Alexander Hamilton believed what he was selling in “Federalist No. 68.”

If “Hamilton” is subversive, the mischievous Reed asks, what is it subverting?

Yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in 1793, touching nearly everyone in the city.

The tension between nationalist ambitions and republican principles goes all the way back to our nation’s founding.

In a new book, top historians discuss the musical’s educational value, historical accuracy and racial revisionism.