How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
Chapter 3
The Moral Foundation of America
The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.
Whose Independence?
The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.
So Much Madeira
What the Founding Fathers ate—and drank—on July 4, 1777
The Insurrection Problem
Violence has marred the American constitutional order since the founding. Is it inevitable?
Secrets of a Radical Duke
How a lost copy of the Declaration of Independence unlocked a historical mystery