Thomas Jefferson

Revisiting history shows that violence and constitutional disputes are nothing new in US politics.

It’s uncanny.

It depends on how you read the Declaration’s “self-evident” truths.

The Founders had disagreements about the role of religion in America’s public schools, but there was always one line they would not cross.

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

The 1790s debate shows that, even when they aim at moral goods, tariffs abet cronyism and corruption.

An interview with Steven Conn about his new book, “Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t.”

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

The Virginia delegate may have spoken those words on March 23, 1775, but some historians doubt it.

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the Henry’s influence. The politician also served in key roles in Virginia’s state government.

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.

The revolutionary roots of a corrosive national pastime.

At the time of the Civil War, many Americans revered the nation’s Founding Fathers, and both supporters and opponents of slavery recruited them to their sides.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

Attempts to add Canada to the U.S. have gone poorly since the 1770s. Trump's rhetoric threatens a repeat.

The left case for an independent Canada.

Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.

Trump is often described as unprecedented, but in winning a non-consecutive second term, he has a significant antecedent: Grover Cleveland.