Thomas Jefferson

The history of using militarized force domestically.

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America.

Two new books make the case against the Electoral College.

A new book explores how George Washington shaped the group of advisors as an institution to meet his own needs.

A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.

The 1800 election shows there is nothing new about conspiracy theories, and that they really take hold when we don’t trust each other.

“I ask: what’s been left out of the historical record of my South and my nation? What is the danger in not knowing?”

A review of "Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle," by Jonathan Horn.

Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

On Hosea Easton’s and David Walker’s attempts to debunk scientific racism.

When Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all.

A newly minted celebrity to the world, the future president used his position to procure his preferred beast of burden from the king of Spain.

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.

History suggests the value of a broader understanding of patriotism, one that goes beyond saluting-the-flag loyalty and battlefield bravery.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

Why criminalizing political opposition can be dangerous.

The Founding Father’s account of the Constitutional Convention includes a famous conversation about causes for impeachment.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.