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Washington is Named for a President who Owned Slaves. Should It Be?

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

by Ron Judd via The Seattle Times on October 11, 2020

A close up of an electoral map from Scribner’s Statistical Atlas of the United States

The Electoral Punt

It can be hard to know what the Founders intended when they didn't know, either.

by Jonathan W. Wilson via Contingent on September 30, 2020

Donald Trump giving a speech under a mural of the Founders.

White Evangelicals and the New American Exceptionalism of Donald Trump

The president's "1776 Commission" marks a turning point in his rhetoric.

by Abram C. Van Engen via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on September 29, 2020

President Donald Trump speaking at a podium at the National Archives

Revisionist History is an American Political Tradition

The founding generation revised the country’s history to make the new nation work.

by Michael D. Hattem via Made By History on September 23, 2020

People in formal wear sitting in chairs, listening to a person behind a desk

Will We Ever Get Rid of the Electoral College?

The system that is nobody’s first choice.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on September 22, 2020

What Trump Is Missing About American History

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

by Leslie M. Harris, Karin Wulf via Politico Magazine on September 20, 2020

The Flawed Genius of the Constitution

The document counted my great-great-grandfather as 3/5 of a free person. But the Framers don’t own the version we live by today. We do.

by Danielle Allen via The Atlantic on September 17, 2020

Painting of men moving the liberty bell.

Our Chief Danger

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.

by William Hogeland via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 1, 2020

A Definitive Case Against the Electoral College

Why the framers created the Electoral College — and why we need to get rid of it.

by Sean Illing, Jesse Wegman via Vox on July 21, 2020

French military marching in practice for the Bastille Day Parade.

The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.

by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on July 14, 2020

Tear Down This Statue

The shameful career of Roger Sherman, mild-mannered Yankee.

by Richard Kreitner via The Baffler on July 6, 2020

Donald Trump giving a speech in front of a large photo of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

‘The Most Ignorant and Unfit’: What Made America’s Worst Ever Leader?

The real challenge is not simply to replace Trump, but to fix a system that produces, promotes, and protects the toxicity that defines his presidency.

by David Rothkopf via New York Review of Books on July 3, 2020

Illustration of Founders signing the Declaration of Independence.

How the Meaning of the Declaration of Independence Changed Over Time

When Thomas Jefferson penned ‘all men are created equal,’ he did not mean individual equality, says Stanford scholar.

by Jack Rakove, Melissa De Witte via Stanford University on July 1, 2020

Rendering Judgment on America

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.

by Samuel Gregg via Public Discourse on July 1, 2020

Portrait of George Washington bathed in light while his enslaved personal servant, William Lee, is behind him in the shadows.

George and Martha Washington Enslaved 300 People. Let’s Start With Their Names

The man who supposedly never told a lie figured out how to stretch the truth when it came to human bondage.

by Michele Norris via Washington Post on June 26, 2020

An illustration of a pilgrim looking toward the sky with a group of others gathered around kneeling.

What Liberty Meant to the Pilgrims

Most adult men could aspire to participation in the religious and political government of the colony. But this communal liberty did not imply personal liberty.

by Nathanael Blake via National Review on June 18, 2020

Washington takes the oath of office surrounded by Founders.

The Faith of the American Founders

What were the religious beliefs of the American founding generation? What do they mean for us today?

by Steven Green, Thomas S. Kidd, Mark David Hall, Brooke Allen via Cato Unbound on June 16, 2020

A 'Hamilton'-esque Scandal Helped Give Trump his Cudgel

On the origins of the Insurrection Act, which allows the president to call on federal troops and state militias to put down insurrections.

by Gautham Rao via CNN on June 2, 2020

Holes punched in the Constitution.

There’s No Historical Justification for One of the Most Dangerous Ideas in American Law

The Founders didn’t believe that broad delegations of legislative power violated the Constitution, but conservative originalists keep insisting otherwise.

by Julian Davis Mortenson, Nicholas Bagley via The Atlantic on May 26, 2020

Postman in a mail truck.

The Founders Never Intended the U.S. Postal Service to be Managed Like a Business

The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.

by Richard R. John via Made By History on April 27, 2020

States Can't Fight Coronavirus on Their Own—And the Founding Fathers Knew It

It was a lesson they'd learned from experience.

by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via TIME on April 6, 2020

History Won’t Save Us

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.

by William Hogeland via The New Republic on March 25, 2020

The national mall.

Historians Must Contextualize the Election for Voters

This information is crucial for getting the election right.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Made By History on February 24, 2020

The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College

The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.

by Corey Robin via New York Review of Books on February 21, 2020

Painting of George Washington on his death bed, surrounded by family and friends.

The Myth of George Washington’s Post-Presidency

When Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all.

by Jonathan Horn via Politico Magazine on February 17, 2020

Even the Founding Fathers Couldn’t Envision a President Like Trump

Reflections on Alexander Hamilton, Alexis de Tocqueville, and the power of the presidency.

by Liesl Schillinger via Literary Hub on February 6, 2020

George Washington on the cover of Alexis Coe's "You Never Forget Your First."

A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington

A cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches.

by Alexis Coe, Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on February 4, 2020

Alan Dershowitz

Trump’s Attorneys Have Butchered a Crucial Founder’s Take on Impeachment

Gouverneur Morris’s views changed during the Constitutional Convention — setting a good example for senators today.

by William M. Treanor via Made By History on January 31, 2020

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

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

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

This Is Not the Senate the Framers Imagined

The Constitution originally provided for the selection of senators by state legislatures, but the 17th Amendment changed that, and with it, the Senate itself.

by Jane Chong via The Atlantic on January 21, 2020

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