Boston 1775

The Harvard Libraries have created a set of webpages called “CURIOSity Digital Collections” which provide “Curated views that provide speci...

For more than a century the U.S. Supreme Court had a seat reserved for New Englanders. The early Presidents had two good reasons for that...

As I noted back here , James Madison used the label “bill of rights” for the first of his proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution —a p...

Joseph Story was only a boy in Marblehead when the Constitution was written. However, he became a Supreme Court justice and a Harvard ...