Thomas Jefferson

The revolutionary roots of a corrosive national pastime.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

At the time of the Civil War, many Americans revered the nation’s Founding Fathers, and both supporters and opponents of slavery recruited them to their sides.

Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.

The left case for an independent Canada.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.

Trump is often described as unprecedented, but in winning a non-consecutive second term, he has a significant antecedent: Grover Cleveland.

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

This year’s momentous vote strangely resembles one of the most consequential elections in American history.

The election of 1801 offers a first-hand example of how current events can offer historians new perspectives on the past.

Make one of President George Washington's favorite cocktails.

John Dickinson's contributions to the Constitution continue to reverberate today.

The overlooked Creek War set the tone for America to come.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”

Some scholars say that it’s to blame for our political dysfunction—and that we need to start over.

Many founders expressed their hope that slavery would be abolished, while simultaneously exerting themselves to defend it.

In the early 19th century, US elites demonized the self-liberated slaves of the Haitian Revolution as dangerous practitioners of barbaric rituals.