Michael Liss

How a president poised to lead a prosperous nation came to use the army against American citizens desperate for economic relief.

On the rhetoric and failure of the Hoover administration.

Thomas Jefferson's limited government ideal quickly conflicted with the U.S. Constitution and the dominant Federalist Party, prompting a radical proposal.

A brief history of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

A whistle-stop train tour, and some plain speaking spur Harry Truman's come from behind win in 1948 over Thomas Dewey.

The presence of Federalist judges frustrated Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party, bring justice Samuel Chase under fire.

Jefferson and his connection to partisanship in early America.

Why John Adams was peculiarly unsuited to the moment.

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.