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Pauline Maier

From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776

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Playing the Grinch at America’s 250th Birthday Party

How do we celebrate America's 250th anniversary as ICE and the Border Patrol threaten and abuse ordinary Americans?

by Jack Rakove via Washington Monthly on February 5, 2026

America's 100 Other Declarations of Independence

The document we celebrate today wasn't just the work of Thomas Jefferson's individual genius. Everyone was doing it.

by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on July 4, 2017

Trumbull painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Dusting Off the Declaration

The Declaration of Independence seems to Pauline Maier to be "peculiarly unsuited" for the role that it eventually came to play in America.

by Gordon S. Wood via New York Review of Books on August 14, 1997

Thomas Paine alongside the front cover of "Common Sense"

Thomas Paine, Common Sense and a Plan for America

The constitutional ideas in Thomas Paine's famous pamphlet.

by Jett Conner via Journal of the American Revolution on November 20, 2025

The Constitution is a Political Document, Not a Sacred One.

Don't let its universalist language fool you.

by Gregory Rodriguez via Contra Mundum on July 6, 2025

Left: cover of "The New Yorkers," a book by Sam Roberts, featuring a collage of black and white photographs of different people. Right: 1884 illustration of British soldiers in long coats fighting with New York men

Isaac Sears and the Roots of America in New York

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.

by Sam Roberts via HNN on October 23, 2022

Abraham Lincoln speaking to a crowd.

Stop Making Sense

Are the truths in the Declaration of Independence really self-evident?

by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on November 8, 2021

Luther Martin

For Constitution Day, Let's Toast the Losers of the Convention

Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.

by Richard Hall via HNN on September 19, 2021

The Late Murray Rothbard Takes on the Constitution

A lost volume of American history finds the light of day.

by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel via Reason on April 20, 2020

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