Franklin and Jefferson promoted smallpox inoculation as vital to the new nation’s survival ...

When debating our constitutional framework back in 1787, the Founding Fathers argued over many things: the role and extent of a central government, how to apportion votes across diversely populated ...

Salve Regina University’s William Leeman traces the history of presidents accumulating the power to initiate wars in the name ...

The exhibit includes versions of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and other documents.

Constitutional scholar and Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar is on a professional crusade to encourage Americans to understand the U.S. Constitution. He is writing a three-volume narrative ...

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 ...

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

Ochlocracy. Now, there’s a classic $10 word common from the American founding era that should make a comeback. (But probably won’t). Turley makes this case by tracing a line from ancient Athens to ...