Boston 1775

The way the Federalists told it, the biggest danger to the new American republic would be some form of “anarchy” leading to a demagogue gain...

From the first “Publius” essay, written by Alexander Hamilton and published on 27 October 1787 in the Independent Journal of New York : It...

The U.S. senate is holding hearings on the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice. Some senators have come out against giving this nomine...

The Selected Papers of John Jay project at Columbia University just published its seventh and final printed volume, covering the years 179...

In April 1785, seventeen-year-old John Quincy Adams had finished his first job, as secretary and translator for American minister Francis...

On 3 May 1797, Rufus King , then in London as the U.S. minister to Great Britain, wrote this in his diary : Mr. [ Benjamin] West calle...

Back in July 2013 I discussed historian Joseph J. Ellis’s focus on, in his words, “the most prominent members of the political leadership...

The New York doctors’ riot of 1788 arose from a popular emotional response to medical students’ grave-robbing and disrespectful treatmen...

When we left off William Heth ’s account of the New York doctors’ riot of April 1788, the anti-dissection crowd had started to attack the c...

The Houghton Library at Harvard has devoted a blog posting to a notable item among its rare books: George Washington ’s copy of A View of ...

Colin Woodard’s American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America reads like a cross between Joel Garreau’...

Earlier this week Mitt Romney, former governor and then critic of Massachusetts, gave a speech about religion and politics that concluded ...