Mercy Otis Warren lost that debate. But her ideas still left a mark, and for that reason, she is worth remembering and ...

The Brennan Center for Justice has released a manual to help lawyers counter misleading historical arguments in legal ...

Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation of “self-evident truths” in the Declaration of Independence was a turning point in world ...

Occasionally a white man emerges to advocate for the advancement of the oppressed while others in power are reluctant. Judge ...

Explore the U.S. bicameral legislature, its structure with the House of Representatives and Senate, and the historical ...

Federalists, the party that advocated more states' rights and less central government than desired by the Federalists. Most ...

Attorneys at Squire Patton Boggs examine the historical and structural aspects of the U.S. presidency that reveal it is among ...

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people ...

Hamilton carried the day with his “strong, energetic presidency.” But he and all the other principal Founders agreed that the ...

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could upend how the federal government has been run for over a century. In Trump v. Slaughter, a challenge to the president’s firing of a ...

One of the lines on the ballot in 2026 is Proposal 1, a question asking Michigan voters whether to convene a constitutional convention. It’s a question that automatically appears on the ballot every ...