Alexander Hamilton

How the hit musical allows those who have been left out of the story to claim the narrative of America as their own.

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history.

As a new book on their travels together shows, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's friendship went beyond politics.

Trump's tariffs echo centuries of global protectionism, but history and economics question their effectiveness and long-term value.

Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.

The history of gerrymandering suggests that the current redistricting race for short-term partisan gain indicates a period of political instability on the way.

Trump’s war against elite academia has created an uncanny parallel to the most dramatic fight in Jackson’s day—the attack on the 2nd Bank of the United States.

To defend the Trump Administration, the Court ignored long-standing precedent barring Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will.

The making of a myth.

A brief history of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Trump is not alone in his support for tariffs. Henry Carey also believed tariffs could help American workers.

Executive trade power has gone too far.

The revolutionary roots of a corrosive national pastime.

“The conflicts of popular factions are the chief, if not the only inlets, of usurpation and Tyranny,” the first president wrote.

Jonathan Gienapp's attack on originalism deserves a serious response.

The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'

Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.