Alexander Hamilton

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.

What honor required of men.

Dueling was a dangerous, ritualized response to a real (or perceived) slight. It may also have been a means of proving one's social and economic capital.

Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.

An American conservatism which subtly or directly marginalizes the Founding is on a fast track to a conservatism at odds with America’s roots itself.

Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.

The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of census records and historical documents.

The question of how to balance state and national power was perhaps the single most important and most challenging question confronting the early republic.

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

When Thomas Jefferson’s administration was debating whether to declare war against Britain, it came up against America’s wealthy and influential marine underwriters.