Thomas Jefferson

Aaron Burr spoke of far-flung fortune, and then the Blennerhassetts’ West Virginia Eden went up in flames.

How changing gender norms and conceptions of childhood shaped modern child custody laws.

What should be done with civic monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders?

Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.

Our circumstances have changed a lot since early colonial times. Unfortunately, our thinking about climate hasn’t changed enough.

The alcohol epidemic devastated Native American communities, leading to crippling poverty, high mortality rates — and a successful sobriety movement.

Civil War historian David Blight reflects on America’s Disunion – then and now.

The weekend's demonstrators were the latest in a long line of American racists to ally themselves with an imagined Middle Ages.

For decades, the military made sure soldiers had access to the treat—including spending $1 million on a floating ice-cream factory.

The rise of public education in America.

The New York Times published the flimsiest defense of Trump’s apparent emoluments violations yet.

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.

Independence Day has always been a political battlefield.

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.

Expansionism, and sending the military into others' lands, is a critical component of American republicanism, and a factor in independence itself.

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

Underlying current debates, says Jill Lepore, are fundamental conflicts over the meanings of the past.

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.