Readers sent hundreds of reflections on the nation’s 250th birthday in recent weeks, and we’ll publish a story about them on ...

There are two distinctly American traits that predated and supercharged the Revolution, raging on for the 250 years since: We ...

At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it ...

Did George Washington really chop down a cherry tree? Did he have wooden teeth? How would he feel about politics today?

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his successor Thomas Jefferson did not share the same view of ...

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