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Again with the History

Were the founders really warning us about Trump, or were they just playing politics, too?

by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on February 6, 2018

Painting of the signing of the Constitution.

The Original Theory of Constitutionalism

The debate between "originalism" and the "living constitution" rages on. What does history say?

by David Singh Grewal, Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Yale Law Journal on January 24, 2018

Alexander Hamilton

The Many Alexander Hamiltons

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Humanities on January 1, 2018

Here's What Benjamin Franklin Scholars Think About Lin-Manuel Miranda's Ode to the Inventor

Fact-checking the lyrics of Miranda's new song.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on December 15, 2017

Chuck Schumer talks with a staffer in shadow beneath the seal of the U.S. Senate.

Secrecy in the Senate

To the framers, working in secret was meant to deliver enlightened legislation.

by Katlyn Marie Carter via Made By History on December 12, 2017

Original printing of the Articles of Confederation in a glass display case at Williams College in 2007.

‘We Have Not a Government’: The US Before the Constitution

What the political crisis in post-revolutionary America has to teach us about our own time.

by Richard Kreitner, George William Van Cleve via The Nation on October 23, 2017

Five Types of Gun Laws the Founding Fathers Loved

A Second Amendment scholar makes the case that gun restrictions are not a recent phenomenon.

by Saul Cornell via The Conversation on October 15, 2017

From Liberty Tree to Taking a Knee

How America's founding era sheds light on the NFL controversy.

by Stephen Solomon via First Amendment Watch on October 12, 2017

Was the Declaration of Independence Signed on July 4?

How memory plays tricks with history.

by Ray Raphael via Journal of the American Revolution on October 10, 2017

Disarming the NRA

The Second Amendment does not stand in the way of better gun laws; the NRA does.

by Adam Winkler via New York Review of Books on October 5, 2017

Gun Anarchy and the Unfree State

The real history of the Second Amendment.

by Saul Cornell via The Baffler on October 3, 2017

Inside the Founding Fathers’ Debate Over What Constituted an Impeachable Offense

If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited.

by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on October 2, 2017

History Frowns on Partisan Gerrymandering

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.

by Michael Waldman, Cliff Sloan via Washington Post on October 1, 2017

Thomas Jefferson and Us

The resurgence of the debate over the Sage of Monticello's legacy: Is Jefferson the ultimate patriot or ultimate hypocrite?

by David Sehat via William and Mary Quarterly on October 1, 2017

Microphone hovers over a portrait of George Washington.

What Trump — And His Critics — Get Wrong About George Washington and Robert E. Lee

The two men owned slaves — but at vastly different moments in American history.

by Patrick Rael via Made By History on August 23, 2017

The Founding Fathers Made Our Schools Public. We Should Keep Them That Way.

They believed public schools were the foundation of a virtuous republic.

by Johann N. Neem via Made By History on August 20, 2017

Charlottesville: Why Jefferson Matters

Annette Gordon-Reed explores the ways in which the many paradoxes of Jefferson make him a potent figure for racists and anti-racists alike.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on August 19, 2017

Is it Still Okay to Venerate George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?

The president's stand on the Confederate hero represents the kind of moral relativism that conservatives usually decry.

by David A. Bell via Washington Post on August 17, 2017

How the Fight Over Civil Forfeiture Lays Bare the Contradictions in Modern Conservatism

The brewing conflict between originalism and law-and-order politics.

by Sarah A. Seo via Made By History on July 24, 2017

Presidential Revisionism

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

by Gautham Rao, Jed Handelsman Shugerman via Slate on July 17, 2017

America's 100 Other Declarations of Independence

The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.

by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on July 4, 2017

Flag in front of a church.

What Politicians Mean When They Say The United States Was Founded As A Christian Nation

Today's Christian nationalists and liberal secularists both oversimplify the history of the nation's founding.

by Sam Haselby via Washington Post on July 4, 2017

An Independence Day Alternative

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.

by Nicholas Guyatt via Jacobin on July 4, 2017

The American Revolution was a Huge Victory for Equality. Liberals Should Celebrate it.

The left is turning its back on the Revolution. Here's why that's a mistake.

by Jeff Stein via Vox on July 4, 2017

Fourth of July fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Partisans Often Try To Claim July 4 As Their Own. It Usually Backfires.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

by Kevin M. Kruse via Made By History on July 3, 2017

This Woman’s Name Appears on the Declaration of Independence. Why Don’t we Know Her Story?

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.

by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on July 3, 2017

The True Story of the Fight for Religious Equality in the US

The U.S. Constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, but the fight for religious equality was only just beginning.

by Richard D. Brown via Aeon on June 28, 2017

The Woman Whose Words Inflamed the American Revolution

Mercy Otis Warren used her wit to agitate for independence.

by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on June 20, 2017

Trump’s Defense of Taking Foreign Money Is Historically Illiterate

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 11, 2017

A “Thorough Deist?” The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin

Historian Thomas S. Kidd examines the tension between Benjamin Franklin's deism and his frequent religious rhetoric

by Thomas S. Kidd via Age of Revolutions on June 5, 2017

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