The Anti-Federalists' skepticism of the Constitution shaped the nation's legacy.

President Donald Trump has a fondness for giving himself nicknames: “ very stable genius ,” “ Honest Don ,” and now “the king ...

Can Founding Fathers show us the right way? When our Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia in the summers of 1774 and 1775, they came with serious differences on several subjects (slavery, states' ...

Among the many yellowing paperbacks on my shelves is a copy of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates. It's a sort of greatest hits collection of contemporaneous ...

This video examines the original debates, documents, and dissent surrounding slavery in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, using the words of the founders and their critics. When lofty ideals ...

Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, which focused on the relationship between Jefferson and John ...

The center opens a new interactive gallery featuring rare founding-era artifacts and everyday stories ahead of America’s 250th birthday.

The sheer velocity of the wreckage is almost impossible to process. This is not normal political combat. It isn’t just more of the partisan roughness that Mr. Dooley had in mind when he remarked that ...

As Philadelphia celebrates America's 250th birthday all year long, the National Constitution Center just opened a new gallery that explores our country's beginnings and features a rare copy of the U.S ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ella Hall, a specialist in Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's, in New York, holds a 1787 printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, ...