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Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on January 20, 2020

America Is Now the Divided Republic the Framers Feared

John Adams worried that “a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil.”
by Lee Drutman via The Atlantic on January 2, 2020

Madison’s Notes Don’t Mean What Everyone Says They Mean

The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.
by Mary Sarah Bilder via The Atlantic on December 22, 2019

Historians' Statement on the Impeachment of President Trump

Over 1000 historians have signed this statement condemning President Trump's actions.
via Medium on December 18, 2019

The Remembered Past

On the beginnings of our stories—and the history of who owns them.
by Lewis H. Lapham via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2019
Bill Barr.
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What Attorney General Barr Gets Wrong About the American Revolution

The revolutionaries were fighting against arbitrary power and for checks and balances.
by Michael D. Hattem via Made By History on November 22, 2019

American Slavery and ‘the Relentless Unforeseen’

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.
by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on November 19, 2019

The Case Against an American King, Then and Now

Liesl Schillinger Considers the Impeachment of Donald Trump vs. the Indictment of George III.
by Liesl Schillinger via Literary Hub on November 8, 2019
Nancy Pelosi
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What We Get Wrong About Ben Franklin’s ‘A Republic, If You Can Keep It’

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.
by Zara Anishanslin via Made By History on October 29, 2019
Andrew Johnson impeachment.

The Common Misconception About ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’

The constitutional standard for impeachment is different from what’s at play in a regular criminal trial.
by Frank O. Bowman III via The Atlantic on October 22, 2019

What’s Next?

Expanding the radical promise of the American Revolution.
by Holly Jackson via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 10, 2019
Map of 1796 presidential election electoral votes by state.
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The Founders Knew That Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections was Dangerous

The origins of our efforts to keep foreign countries out of our elections.
by Jordan E. Taylor via Made By History on October 7, 2019
Smudged and revised copy of the Constitution.

The Constitution Is the Crisis

The system is rigged, and it’s the Constitution that’s doing the rigging.
by Sanford Levinson via The Atlantic on October 1, 2019

The Fourth Battle for the Constitution

The latest struggle to define America's founding charter will define the country for generations to come.
by Jeffrey Rosen via The Atlantic on September 25, 2019

America Needs Whistle-Blowers Because of People Like This

Since the founding, Congress has supported democracy and public integrity by protecting those who spoke up about abuses of power.
by Allison Stanger via The Atlantic on September 25, 2019
Trial of Warren Hastings in the Court of Peers, Westminster Hall.

Why the Founders Added ‘High Crimes and Misdemeanors’

In defining the scope of impeachment, they had in mind the alleged crimes of Warren Hastings.
by Rob Goodman via The Atlantic on September 25, 2019

The Slow Build Up to the American Revolution

American revolutionaries had a far wider range of reasons for supporting rebellion than we often assume.
by T. H. Breen via Literary Hub on September 23, 2019

We’re Getting These Murals All Wrong

The murals have been denounced as demeaning, and defended as an exposé of America’s racist past. Both sides miss the point.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via The Nation on September 10, 2019
Painting of the signing of the Constitution.

The American Founders Made Sure the President Could Never Suspend Congress

Boris Johnson is suspending Parliament for five weeks. That couldn't happen in the United States.
by Eliga Gould via The Conversation on September 3, 2019

How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.
by John Clegg via Jacobin on August 28, 2019

Aaron Burr — Villain of ‘Hamilton’ — Had a Secret Family of Color, New Research Shows

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.
by Hannah Natanson via Retropolis on August 24, 2019
Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The Nation Is Imperfect. The Constitution Is Still a 'Glorious Liberty Document.'

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.
by Timothy Sandefur via Reason on August 21, 2019

America Is Not Rome. It Just Thinks It Is

Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.
by Tom Holland via New York Review of Books on August 6, 2019
Revolutionary War reenactment.

The Second-Amendment Case for Gun Control

It's a myth that the Founders opposed the regulation of deadly weapons.
by Saul Cornell via The New Republic on August 4, 2019
Donald Trump.
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How Trump’s Airport Gaffe Masked A Dangerous Misunderstanding of the Revolutionary War

America won its freedom thanks to strong alliances.
by Lawrence B. A. Hatter via Made By History on July 12, 2019
U.S. Constitution

The President Who Would Not Be King

Executive power and the Constitution.
by Michael W. McConnell via Stanford Lawyer on June 26, 2019

This Long-Ignored Document by George Washington Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy

In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom.
by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on June 18, 2019
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A Brief History of the Theory Trump and Barr Use to Resist Congressional Oversight

Is Trump's power as president becoming just what the Founders feared?
by Donald J. Fraser via HNN on June 2, 2019
Painting by Titus Kaphar entitled "Page 4 of Jefferson’s ‘Farm Book"

How Proslavery Was the Constitution?

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.
by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2019

What Two Crucial Words in the Constitution Actually Mean

I reviewed publications from the founding era, and discovered that “executive power” doesn’t imply what most scholars thought.
by Julian Davis Mortenson via The Atlantic on June 2, 2019
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