Thomas Jefferson

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.

History suggests the value of a broader understanding of patriotism, one that goes beyond saluting-the-flag loyalty and battlefield bravery.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

Why criminalizing political opposition can be dangerous.

The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.

More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III.

Conspiracy theories have been a central feature in American politics since before the Revolution.

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.

How three late 19th century equality movements failed to promote equality.

From the Framers on, Americans have understood our fundamental law to oppose ownership of persons.

It’s doubtful even Alexander Hamilton believed what he was selling in “Federalist No. 68.”

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

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.