Alexander Hamilton

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

Make one of President George Washington's favorite cocktails.

To achieve a new political settlement, she has to resolve a tension dating from the Revolution.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

While it is rare for foreign policy differences between the political parties to affect electoral outcomes, it has happened before.

The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.

Plus: How George Washington almost ruined his own exit from the national stage.

The signs that precede the crumbling of American political parties and the creation of new ones.

The Roberts Court has made the current crisis of American democracy perpetual.

America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

"I was always working on a theory of America."

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.