On Sept. 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had signed a new U.S. Constitution. This new Constitution was the Framers’ proposal for a new national government.

The problem of centralized power The United States is broken, and it’s time to think about what comes next. Images of the White House East Wing demolition ...

The historian Joseph J. Ellis deals honestly with America’s original sins without slandering the country or diminishing its ...

In the recent government shutdown, two million federal employees stopped being paid. Nearly a million were placed on ...

The Northshire Bookstore will host Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historian Joseph Ellis to discuss his ...

The crowning moment of the tour through The National Constitution Center-America's one and only museum devoted to the great ...

Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and tragedies of the nation’s ...