George Washington’s Farewell Address warned against “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men” who would “subvert the power ...
Whatever the term, historians largely agree: The United States was born out of protest 250 years ago and has been propelled ...
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 ...
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 ...
The “Freedom Plane National Tour: Documents That Forged a Nation,” announced during a livestreamed press briefing on Jan. 20, ...
Fewer understand them well enough to opine confidently on their legacies. Consider this your cheat sheet. From primers to ...
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 ...
One could argue that Samuel Adams was not only the last of the Puritans but the first of the Founding Fathers. If George ...
America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause and disrupt the public speech that the ...