George Washington

A Pulitzer Prize winner punches down.

The answer can change over time.

The oval office looks different now that President Biden is its occupant.

Some supporters of the violent mob scene at the Capitol proclaimed it was the beginning of a “Second American Revolution.”

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.

David O. Stewart discusses the relationship between William Costin and the Washington bloodline.

States have a legitimate way to influence national politics. Forcing their will on other states isn't it.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

Horseback travel time is only part of the story.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

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.