Alexander Hamilton

Reforms have only made obstruction the Founders never intended worse.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.

The oval office looks different now that President Biden is its occupant.

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

How the founders settled on the system we love to hate today.

Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.

The system that is nobody’s first choice.

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.

Who tells our stories has always mattered.

On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.

The real challenge is not simply to replace Trump, but to fix a system that produces, promotes, and protects the toxicity that defines his presidency.

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.

How African-Americans in Early America celebrated the Declaration of Independence's ideals, even as basic freedoms were denied to them.

A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.

Eric Foner reviews two new books that make the case against the Electoral College.

A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.

Official responses to the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 shows that the refusal to accept responsibility can have catastrophic consequences.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.