“The Unfinished Revolution”

He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

The geological origins of the American Revolution.

Henry’s fiery oratory turned words into revolution, merging faith, emotion, and democracy to help speak a nation into being.

One of the most influential and ardent Patriots couldn’t persuade his son to join the Revolution.

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery.

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.

Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?

How he used America’s past to rescue its future.

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.