George Washington

History books remember Yorktown as a "victory for the right of self-determination." But the battle guaranteed slavery for nearly another century.

This armed uprising in 1794, over taxation by the fledgling new government, threatened to destroy the new union within six years of the Constitution’s ratification.

What role should the federal government play in building our infrastructure?

Which personality of the American Revolution or the founding era is remembered for the wrong reasons, and why?

Vaccines against smallpox during the Revolutionary War are one example of how mandates have protected the health of Americans for more than two centuries.

On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us,” a new history of America’s constitutional conversation.

Actions are more persuasive than words, and manipulating morale often dictates how commanders deploy their troops. Witness the American War of Independence.

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

Bill Bleyer dives into the secret Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution while disproving many of the urban myths surrounding the characters involved.

A Virginia congressman has filed a bill to make the swamp a National Heritage Site.

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.

A new history of five heroes of the revolutionary period considers the power and instability of charismatic leadership.

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.

Washington supported a much more limited conception of executive privilege.

There is, and always has been, a vanishingly thin line between charismatic democratic rulers and charismatic authoritarians.

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.

Hunting shirts, backcountry culture, and “playing Indian” in the American Revolution.

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

Our first President understood that armed citizens are essential to American freedom.

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.