As the United States prepares to celebrate 250 years of its Independence, it is proper to examine the career of James Madison, the fourth president of the Republic. More than any other, he shaped the ...

The story of the US is, in many ways, remarkable. It achieved independence against the odds, its constitution has lasted more ...

Charles Brockden Brown’s work addressed the violence, psychological torment and corruption that Americans faced in urban ...

Readers sent hundreds of reflections on the nation’s 250th birthday in recent weeks, and we’ll publish a story about them on ...

This video follows the bitter political chaos that erupted after George Washington left office. John Adams and Thomas ...

Without course correction, experts warn, it cannot be overstated how much of what the country has achieved could be lost.

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Crikey examines a single life which illuminates the myriad contradictions woven ...

As Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence, they are also celebrating the first attorneys general who ...

My dad was an Irish immigrant and so were my mom’s parents. America was fair to them, and they wanted to be fair to everyone ...

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared ...

John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his successor Thomas Jefferson did not share the same view of ...

Now, as America prepares to celebrate 250 years of independence, we are confronted with a bitter irony: the republic born in rebellion against empire has become an empire in everything but name. Worse ...