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' ...

Ahead of the America 250 celebration, TN attorney Paul Summers begins a public civics study, starting with a look at the ...

Fewer understand them well enough to opine confidently on their legacies. Consider this your cheat sheet. From primers to ...

Gouverneur Morris wrote the preamble to the Constitution and shaped the future of the nascent United States. Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure Zachary Clary - Historian ...

Sept. 17 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Nine states ratified ...

When you picture the American Revolution, you probably see powdered wigs, crowded battlefields and bold declarations of freedom. But what’s often missing from that mental image? The women. From ...

One could argue that Samuel Adams was not only the last of the Puritans but the first of the Founding Fathers. If George ...

Stories about America’s Founding Fathers often sound polished and predictable. Textbooks and paintings smooth over quarrels, failures, and uneasy compromises until the revolution looks like a tidy ...

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 ...