George Washington

Environment, British occupation, and The winter of 1779-1780.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

The question of how to balance state and national power was perhaps the single most important and most challenging question confronting the early republic.

Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.

Extending that compassion today could reverse past wrongs.

The Age of Revolution inaugurated a new era in modern history defined not only by new democratic institutions but also by despots and charismatic leaders.

A review of how Dennis Rasmussen understands America's Founding Fathers and their disillusions with the American experiment.

Popular religious iconography and art in the decades preceding the Revolution offer a fuller narrative arc of the development of revolutionary ideas within American society.

Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

George III was a model monarch, whose reputation finally deserves rehabilitation a quarter of a millennium later.

Experiencing history in Assassin’s Creed.

Georgia enacted the Citizen's Arrest Law in an attempt to maintain control of enslaved people.

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

The author of ‘Founding Brothers’ tries to capture the breadth of the War for Independence in a single narrative.

Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.

The little-known story of Robert Carter III.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

There have been at least eight provinces in British North America labeled the "fourteenth colony." They cannot all claim the same title.

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.