Theodore Sedgwick distrusted democracy, feared political equality and believed society should be guided by educated, propertied elites. Yet at a moment when partisan fury threatened to break the ...

A collection of Wisconsin football class of 2027 commits will officially visit Madison this weekend, per 247Sports' Nick Osen ...

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,. . .”—Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address” (November 19, 1863) “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the ...

Bob Dylan’s “all night girls whispered escapades out on the D Train.” Billy Strayhorn told us to take the A Train and “Listen ...

What if political parties are a big part of the answer? I know, I know. You have mixed feelings about parties. So did James ...

George Washington’s Farewell Address is, in effect, the culmination and fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence.

In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the ...

The president believes the only limit to his will is his own morality and his own mind. Alexander Hamilton had a different ...

On Friday, May 15, U.S. and Nigerian forces killed an Islamic State leader the president described as the group's "second in ...