How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

Possibly, the Founders all knew that their creation was not on solid ground. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what government ...

Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.

The 1977 law that allows Trump to declare a fake emergency to impose massive tariffs was an invitation to dictatorship.

Vermont Business Magazine The Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) has developed an interactive, self-guided ...

The anti-federalists, who were critics of the proposed Constitution of 1787, saw danger in total judicial independence.

Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

The president brought onstage an auto worker from Michigan he spotted applauding his announcement of a 25% tariff on foreign ...

In these pieces, I will strive to explain how The Founders, including James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, set up our system ...

Donald Trump has remade the GOP in his image. Once a gadfly whose ideas were widely derided as late as 2016, Trump now dominates his party. This is odd ...