George Washington

Seventy-eight years ago, protesters and white supremacists clashed outside of Madison Square Garden.

For decades, the military made sure soldiers had access to the treat—including spending $1 million on a floating ice-cream factory.

The blurred line between boyhood and manhood.

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

James Monroe’s 1817 goodwill tour kicked off a decade of party-less government – but he couldn’t stop the nation from dividing again.

Edits that colonists made to prayer books during the American Revolution embodied the shift to independence.

A nation divided, even at birth.

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

A collection of photos of American Nazis – and the Americans who took a stand against them.

A century and a half after the Civil War, Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked his city to reexamine its past — and to wrestle with hard truths.

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.