Thomas Jefferson

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

This year’s momentous vote strangely resembles one of the most consequential elections in American history.

The election of 1801 offers a first-hand example of how current events can offer historians new perspectives on the past.

Make one of President George Washington's favorite cocktails.

John Dickinson's contributions to the Constitution continue to reverberate today.

The overlooked Creek War set the tone for America to come.

The White House's most terrifying ghost and the maid who saw it.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”

Some scholars say that it’s to blame for our political dysfunction—and that we need to start over.

Many founders expressed their hope that slavery would be abolished, while simultaneously exerting themselves to defend it.

In the early 19th century, US elites demonized the self-liberated slaves of the Haitian Revolution as dangerous practitioners of barbaric rituals.

Although the American tradition is broadly liberal, it is best understood as divided between two schools: classical and managerial liberalism.

The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.

Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.

Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions and argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.

U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

A new book brings to life the war in the South.