There are two distinctly American traits that predated and supercharged the Revolution, raging on for the 250 years since: We ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate 250 years of its Independence, it is proper to examine the career of James Madison, the fourth president of the Republic. More than any other, he shaped the ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

The story of the US is, in many ways, remarkable. It achieved independence against the odds, its constitution has lasted more ...

Readers sent hundreds of reflections on the nation’s 250th birthday in recent weeks, and we’ll publish a story about them on ...

This video follows the bitter political chaos that erupted after George Washington left office. John Adams and Thomas ...

Without course correction, experts warn, it cannot be overstated how much of what the country has achieved could be lost.

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Crikey examines a single life which illuminates the myriad contradictions woven ...

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

My dad was an Irish immigrant and so were my mom’s parents. America was fair to them, and they wanted to be fair to everyone ...

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional ...