Colin Calloway

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.

Ken Burns’s newest docuseries may have its shortcomings, but others looking to tell the story of the Founding could learn from his attention to detail.

Though technologies have altered information warfare, the underlying principles remain unchanged since the day-to-day operations of the Continental Army.

A case study in re-reading nineteenth-century delegation photography.

Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.

Washington changed the world forever when he crossed the Delaware—for the worse.