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 ...

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 ...

On the contrary, No Kings is not “what democracy looks like” — at least not in the founders’ republic.

I have on many occasions lauded the unprecedented nature and vast volume of American Revolutionary Era literature. The scope and scale of writings--everything from newspaper articles and political ...

The president’s latest bit of chicanery may seem relatively muted, but it is perhaps the most anti-constitutional thing he’s ...

I have on many occasions lauded the unprecedented nature and vast volume of American Revolutionary Era literature. The scope and scale of writings--everything from newspaper articles and political ...

N othing was ever quaint,” mused Ken Burns in a New York film studio last spring, as he made some last edits to his latest ...

Our democratic republic is in grave peril. The national debt, well more than $37 trillion, is now growing by one trillion in debt every five months, according the Peterson Foundation. A 2023 Pew ...