Lincoln deserves far more credit than he has received as an architect of American constitutional law. Introduction...
Day: February 18, 2019
The founders were an essential political and cultural touchstone in the election of 1864. “Four score and...
Martin van Buren was a man for the people, and especially for the downtrodden. Martin van Buren...
He claimed that he embodied the people in the same way that Louis XIV believed that he...
Jeffersonian scholarship is not a fool’s errand, but it is extremely arduous. Merrill Peterson, the preeminent Jeffersonian scholar,...
Sentiment began to change in earnest in the wake of the decision to publicize the XYZ dispatches...