Alexander Hamilton

One of the country’s greatest rhetorical traditions still has the power to remind us of our founding principles.

Space and place in New York City's responses to the French Revolution.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

Government, wrote Alexander Hamilton, should substitute “the mild influence” of the law for “the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword.”

How Eugene V. Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom.

Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. Now lawmakers are making concerted efforts to repeal statutes that prohibit it.

Ron DeSantis, who has attacked Florida history lessons and aims to run for president, dismisses slavery in his 2011 book as a “personal flaw” of the Founding Fathers.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

A new book considers the possible alternative outcomes of the battles in America's war for independence.

Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.

The shadow of Samuel Adams, a crafty and government-wary revolutionary, lingers over the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

A new history of American politics examines the past and future of political realignments.

Treaties with Britain, the Confederated tribes, and Spain revealed that America was still dependent on the greater geopolitics of the Atlantic World.

Maybe the United States was doomed from the start. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau can explain why.

The death of Elma Sands and the Manhattan Company.

The Broadway revival of the musical means less to reanimate the nation’s founding than to talk back to it.

Aaron Burr was the highest-ranking official to stand trial for treason, which some people have invoked now amid probes into ex-president Donald Trump.

“Colorblindness,” an ideology that denies race as an organizing principle of the nation’s structural order, reaches back to the drafting of the US Constitution.

The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.