Jack Rakove

Whole states of the Union owe their very existence to nothing more nation-building than 19th-Century pols’ wanting to add new senators to one side of the aisle.

The concern of this article is with the unraveling of precedent based upon a judicial philosophy known as originalism.

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Reflections on the latest public debate between historians about the causes of the American Revolution.

It can be hard to know what the Founders intended when they didn't know, either.

A new book argues that the fetishization of the first ten amendments is a recent thing – and that it comes at a cost.

Were the founders really warning us about Trump, or were they just playing politics, too?

We hold this truth to be self-evident: John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence was too big.