Thomas Jefferson

The removal of Indigenous people was a national priority with broad consensus.

The colonial rebellion we celebrate every July 4th doesn’t fit the definition.

When it comes to cicadas, the silence of the historical record can be deafening.

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

While Enlightenment philosophy may have influenced the wealthy Revolutionary elites, it was the Biblical worldview that prompted widespread resistance.

In its reexamination of narratives about the expropriation of Native land, Michael Witgen’s work changes how Native people are in the arc of American history.

The political upheaval of 1824 changed America. The same could happen in 2024.

The enduring necessity (and importance) of a nearly 200-year-old technology.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

How preparation for a big purchase turned into an adventure through history.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

Advanced Placement testing is "a money-making racket that lets states off the hook for underfunding education."

A conspiracy theory among New England Federalists led some to contemplate separating from the U.S. during the War of 1812.

Since colonial times, the Book of Esther has proved a powerful metaphor in American politics.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

Jefferson's vision of the family farm is a myth that won't die.

'All men are created equal' coexisted with the understanding that not all were meant to be treated equally in life.

Who is the father of American capitalism?

In the heart of New York City, a centuries-long hunt for Revolutionary War–era gold.

The Arch in St. Louis stands as a monument to contradictory histories.