Thomas Jefferson

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

Expansionism, and sending the military into others' lands, is a critical component of American republicanism, and a factor in independence itself.

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

Underlying current debates, says Jill Lepore, are fundamental conflicts over the meanings of the past.

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.

In the 19th century, Jackson broadened the electorate, but the self-righteousness of some Democrats impedes their efforts to do the same.

The president deserves the Jackson legacy, but not for the reasons he'd like.

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.

Only if we face the painful lies we tell ourselves about the past can we hope to overcome what's happening now.

Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to the Trump election - and what we can learn.

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.

We can learn more from him in today's political world.

"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.

Why Broadway's biggest villain is worth a second look.

Novelists concocted elaborate fake histories for mysterious caves in Virginia.

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.