Alexander Hamilton

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.

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

The Comte de Buffon's thirty-six volume Natural History claimed that America was a land of degeneracy. That enraged Thomas Jefferson.

For nearly 200 years after the founding of New York, the city struggled to establish a clean source of fresh water.

Colonial Williamsburg has acknowledged to the LGBTQ community that people like them “have always existed.”

The constitutional standard for impeachment is different from what’s at play in a regular criminal trial.

Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.

Is Trump's power as president becoming just what the Founders feared?

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: abuse of presidential power.

The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

In the early 1800s, David Hosack created one of the nation's first botanical gardens to further his pioneering medical research.

The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.