George Washington

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.

An overlooked corner of the Constitution hints at a right to be protected from infection.

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.

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

Richard J. Werther discusses how being outmanned by the best army in the world led American revolutionaries to look overseas for the help they needed.

Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy.

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

It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business.

For decades, a white woman’s memoir shaped our understanding of America’s first Black poet. Does a new book change the story?

Despite our long history of interrogating the memorial landscape, no movement has been able to dislodge it.

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.

The ideology of the men who celebrated the United States while fighting for its dissolution is still very much alive.

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.

The history of using militarized force domestically.

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

A new book details how the young nation regarded its recent and more ancient pasts.

The Kent State shootings further widened the chasm among a citizenry divided over the Vietnam War.

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.

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

It was a lesson they'd learned from experience.