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 ...

President Trump launched a scathing attack against a judge he appointed and conservative activist Leonard Leo, following the U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling on Wednesday that overturned his ...

We Americans tend to remember the Founding Fathers we see most often on money, monuments or Broadway stages. And we tend to honor above all the bold and those blessed with keen wit or soaring ...

"Ahead of the United States' 250th anniversary, 59% of Americans say the country's best years are behind us, while 40% say its best years are ahead," Pew Research's Blen Wondimu reported earlier this ...

Policymakers see the country’s 250th anniversary as a chance to bolster civics education. Educators say they face challenges ...

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Jones’ combative speech took aim at a conservative legal society — and exposed tensions inside the High Court.

Recently I was searching for information on the history of our local railroads. I love reading about how major historical events played out in our area, it provides me with ...

“The first man put at the helm will be a good one,” Benjamin Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention in June 1787, referring to George Washington. “No body knows what sort may come afterward.

If Meriwether Lewis and William Clark hadn’t gone up the Missouri River in 1804 and then down the lower Columbia River in ...

Primary elections are a great American tradition. Every two years, Republican voters in Idaho head to the polls to decide our ...