George Washington

This delicious sticky treat has quite the American origin story.

The death of Elma Sands and the Manhattan Company.

Like so many other reluctant revolutionaries in New York, he seemed the antithesis of the rabble in arms that the British identified with the mobocracy.

Theodore Roosevelt said his made him look like “a mewing cat.” Lyndon Johnson called his “the ugliest thing I ever saw.” Ronald Reagan ordered a do-over.

Ken Burns’ account of prohibition tells a popular story of booze in America. The historical record is far more sobering.

Examining the ingredients—time, grain, government regulations—that have made bourbon an enduring national favorite.

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

Philadelphia gave America its flag, along with other enduring icons of nationhood. But for many, the red, white and blue banner embodies a legacy of injustice.

Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home. 

For nearly all of its modern existence, the Great Dismal Swamp has been excluded from U.S. history. Now there’s a push to bring its significance to light.

Understanding the meaning of the word "slut" in the Founders' vocabulary.

Environment, British occupation, and The winter of 1779-1780.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

The question of how to balance state and national power was perhaps the single most important and most challenging question confronting the early republic.

Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.

Extending that compassion today could reverse past wrongs.

The Age of Revolution inaugurated a new era in modern history defined not only by new democratic institutions but also by despots and charismatic leaders.

A review of how Dennis Rasmussen understands America's Founding Fathers and their disillusions with the American experiment.

Popular religious iconography and art in the decades preceding the Revolution offer a fuller narrative arc of the development of revolutionary ideas within American society.

Thomas Jefferson imagines an unequal gender utopia.