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It would be hard to find a more strident, vocal supporter of popular government during America’s founding period than Thomas Paine. The proposals put…
Scholars typically cast the outcome of the second presidential election as either a forgone conclusion or a non-event.[1] After all, George Washington ran unchallenged…
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A separation of powers is a defining structural feature of the federal government established by the United States Constitution, yet an explicit statement of…
At the beginning of March 1777, Arthur Lee, a delegate to the United States Congress, urgently requested to meet with the Marquis de Grimaldi,…
On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews John A. Ruddiman, Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University, on his recent article about…
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Late in his life, after retiring the presidency, James Monroe drafted his own history. He was still struck, five decades after the War for…
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Gen. George Washington did not sleep here but many of his soldiers did—that is, on the grounds or nearby. The historic site known today…
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In 1813, Thomas Jefferson received a letter from Marguerite Brazier Bonneville, a French emigre and Thomas Paine’s former caretaker. Bonneville asked the former president…
Speaking at South Carolina’s ratification convention in 1788, Charles Pinckney derided the Articles of Confederation as a “miserable, feeble mockery of government.” Pinckney was…
“It may be doubted whether so small a number of men ever employed so short a space of time with greater and more lasting…