Thomas Jefferson

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

Writing under ancient veneers allowed partisans to politicize and weaponize ancient history during the turbulent start of the Federal Republic.

How French cuisine became beloved among status-hungry diners in the United States, from Thomas Jefferson to Kanye West.

The Founding Fathers made startlingly progressive statements that didn’t make it into popular history.

Interposition was a claim that American federalism needed to preserve some balance between state and national authority.

Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty.

Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.

A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.

As modern lawmakers consider various means of public assistance for local news, they can learn from the founders’ approach to supporting journals and gazettes.

The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.

On "Power and Liberty," a condensed version of Gordon Wood's entire sweep of scholarship about constitutionalism.

The demand of antislavery activists for accused fugitives to be guaranteed a jury trial was an implicit recognition of Black citizenship.

Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils.

The waterway opened up the heartland to trade, transforming small hamlets into industrial centers.

Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.

The intertwined history of education, history, and patriotism in the United States.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Governors Ron DeSantis and Gretchen Whitmer took opposite approaches to covid in swing states — but each sailed to reelection.

In Virginia, the land still owned by the Coles family could yield billions in uranium. Does any of that wealth belong to the descendants of the enslaved?

This delicious sticky treat has quite the American origin story.