Thomas Jefferson

Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

The framers of the United States Constitution envisoned economic discipline that they thought was a requirement for a republic to endure.

On the inherent contradictions behind the American revolutionary dream.

On the hundredth anniversary of Tennessee v. Scopes.

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.

“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

Early American elites were fascinated with genealogy, despite the ways it attached them to the Old World.

Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.

Justice John Marshall’s ruling on Marbury v. Madison gave the courts the right to declare acts and laws of the other branches unconstitutional.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

At the founding of America, leaders predicted that a concentration of wealth would weaken the republic.