Thomas Jefferson

The documentary's accommodation of the Lost Cause narrative may have left viewers with a skewed understanding of the conflict.

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.

It was motivated in part by white Southerners' concerns about taxes, but ended up being all about maintaining their political power.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

240 years after the American Revolution, debates over how to interpret the conflict and its leaders continue.

What is the greatest libertarian accomplishment of all time? The abolition of slavery.

The longest-running party in America has seen significant shifts in its ideological and geographic makeup.

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

The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun.

Who were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, and the rest of the first 16 US presidents, what did they do, and what do they hope history has forgotten?

On the introduction of the Franklin stove into the American home and the ensuing stove revolution.

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”

John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.

George Washington scales new heights.

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.