Alexander Hamilton

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.

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.”

Inspired by America’s exceptional idea, it took a vital step toward securing liberty for slaves.

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