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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

As Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence, they are also celebrating the first attorneys general who ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Washington to Lincoln, America’s leaders wrestled with immigration, revealing a legacy more complex than today’s ...