The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the historian whose book inspired it are getting the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal this fall. The award is bestowed for efforts to ...

There have been major clashes between the federal government and the states, but nothing like what Trump is fomenting now.

Thomas Jefferson, another Founding Father, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, one of the most pro-slavery and ...

South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its ...

America’s foremost history documentarian is back at a pivotal moment. But is he avoiding the hard truths about the country’s origins?

John Hancock was once one of the wealthiest merchants in New England and among the most popular and well-respected figures of ...

The American vision has a high degree of tolerance for inequality and a robust commitment to individual liberty, because in the American revolutionary tradition, the pursuit of happiness is an ...

Kiplinger presents timeless personal finance wisdom from the Founding Fathers, echoing much of our own advice.

The president launches a nationalist and ‘patriotic’ program at a rally in Iowa, ahead of the 2026 celebrations, with an ...

The convention had just reached its monumental high point, and the 40-year-old attorney from Massachusetts excitedly wrote ...