Alexander Hamilton

Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.

As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country’s future by bulldozing its past.

On George Washington’s farewell address of 1796.

But not because the founders wanted to see more guns in the hands of Americans.

The Founders didn’t model us on the Six Nations, and George Washington didn’t tomahawk a Frenchman.

They might be surprised that the republic exists at all.

Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history.

As a new book on their travels together shows, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's friendship went beyond politics.

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure.

Trump's tariffs echo centuries of global protectionism, but history and economics question their effectiveness and long-term value.

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

The history of gerrymandering suggests that the current redistricting race for short-term partisan gain indicates a period of political instability on the way.

Trump’s war against elite academia has created an uncanny parallel to the most dramatic fight in Jackson’s day—the attack on the 2nd Bank of the United States.

To defend the Trump Administration, the Court ignored long-standing precedent barring Presidents from firing independent-agency heads at will.

The making of a myth.

A brief history of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Trump is not alone in his support for tariffs. Henry Carey also believed tariffs could help American workers.