In “Desolation Row” (1965) Bob Dylan sings, “And everybody’s shouting / ‘Which side are you on?’” The line captures what it has felt like over the past few years to be a reader of American history. In ...

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1. Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers: An Introduction; PART I: The Bible and Culture; 2. The English ...

Unlike the first democratic Greek city-states, the Roman Republic was a relatively stable government. Cicero played a large role in establishing its legal and political customs. His legal victories, ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

When you think about some of the most important history lessons in the United States, learning about the Founding Fathers is among the most important. These individuals helped create a nation that, in ...

With America’s 250th birthday just a few short days away, it is worth asking what the nation’s Founding Fathers would think about the decrepit state of American democracy and government today, after ...

Rome was great, and America can be greater still if it can remember both Nature and Nature’s God: In the dying words of Mercy Otis Warren’s tragic heroine in the Founding-era play The Sack of Rome, ...

Yes, they were flawed; many of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence – indeed the man who wrote it – were themselves slaveholders. Yes, also: what they did in the summer of 1776 changed ...