Oliver Cromwell

Today, the international feminist group FEMEN uses nudity as part of its protests. But appearing naked in public was also a tactic used by early dissenters.

After the English Revolution—and an island’s experiment with republicanism—a genuine restoration was never in the cards.

Historians Rosemarie Zagarri and Holly Brewer explain the anti-monarchical origins of the Constitution and the presidency.

The religious origins of American liberalism.

A drama about an interracial uprising in colonial Virginia.

A brief history of the Yuletide in America.

For Freud, “chosenness” was a psychopathological fantasy in need of explanation.

Why did Alexander Hamilton and James Madison take up the cause of the very thing that revolutionaries had vehemently opposed?