Thomas Jefferson

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”

Some scholars say that it’s to blame for our political dysfunction—and that we need to start over.

Many founders expressed their hope that slavery would be abolished, while simultaneously exerting themselves to defend it.

In the early 19th century, US elites demonized the self-liberated slaves of the Haitian Revolution as dangerous practitioners of barbaric rituals.

The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.

Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.

Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions and argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.

U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations. But are they doing more harm than we realize?

A new book explores the history of presidents who abused their constitutional power and the citizen movements that stopped them.

America’s founding document is now an all-but-meaningless scrap of paper. Happy Fourth!

A new book brings to life the war in the South.

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.

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."