Timothy Messer-Kruse

In public schools around the country, conservatives are succeeding in their long effort to replace the word “democracy” with “constitutional republic.”

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

The enslaved Prince Whipple acutely felt the contradiction between American ideals and his condition.

Jefferson’s system depended on shoring up the bulwarks of race and basing the law on a theory of government that withdrew protection from unfavored groups.

The filmmaker’s new documentary on Benjamin Franklin tells an old and misleading story.

Laws against teaching critical race theory might backfire on Republicans.