George Washington

The leaders of the Revolutionary War -- and their vision for the nation -- were far from revolutionary.

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.

Teddy used nearly 10 times as many executive orders as his predecessor. The repercussions are still felt today.

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

Outrage over the revolt spurred the U.S. to deliver on a promise of the revolution.

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.

Hamilton is less a new vision of the past than a translation of the sacred stories of American civil religion into the vernacular.

The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways.

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.

As a young woman, civil rights pioneer Pauli Murray discovered that the flag could be used as a symbol of defiance.

An interview with Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf.

Novelists concocted elaborate fake histories for mysterious caves in Virginia.

We need literature that wrestles with the evils of slavery while confronting its complexity – especially when it’s written for children

Originally, the term referred to a specific kind of foreign political violence.

240 years after the American Revolution, debates over how to interpret the conflict and its leaders continue.

Who were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, and the rest of the first 16 US presidents, what did they do, and what do they hope history has forgotten?

An hour of stories about a few high-stakes inaugurations from the past.