Thomas Jefferson

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

James Callender spread scurrilous rumors about Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Then he turned on Thomas Jefferson, too.

The founding moment of the United States brought a society newly freed from religion. What went wrong?

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

Fleeing the Haitian revolution, whites and free blacks were viewed with suspicion by American slaveholders, including Thomas Jefferson.

What does it mean to be Muslim in America? And how has the practice of Islam in the U.S. changed over time?

"You're taking over our country" echoes long-held narratives and has renewed prominence in conservative discourse.

Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the first ever African-American woman to be published.

The Declaration of Independence seems to Pauline Maier to be "peculiarly unsuited" for the role that it eventually came to play in America.

Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some colonists to back the fight for independence. But the source of the inferno was not what it seemed.

It had been home to the Office of the First Lady since the 1970s.

How Amanda Vaill gave Eliza and Angelica Schuyler their due.

The second Trump administration has undone the division between political and economic migrants. Did it make sense to separate them to begin with?

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.

Tracing Thomas Sowell’s shift from Marxism to the Chicago school of economics.

To understand Congress’s abdication, look at the history of presidential selection.

Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history.

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure.