Ochlocracy. Now, there’s a classic $10 word common from the American founding era that should make a comeback. (But probably ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in United States history, several of the country’s founding documents will travel the skies to visit multiple cities on their own jet in honor of the nation’s founding.

The Founding Fathers lived in a world of kings and emperors. There was no democracy in their time, and nothing even close since ancient Greece. Men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, well ...