As we honor Constitution Day on Sept. 17, let us recommit not only to the rule of law, but to the habits of citizenship that ...

The resistance to Federalists’ hysteria about supposed French influence in American politics is history worth revisiting, ...

Some overviews. Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) / Thomas Jefferson -- Democracy in America (1835-40) / Alexis de Tocqueville -- The Pilgrims of Plymouth (1855) / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Race ...

“Whenever the people are well-informed,” Thomas Jefferson opined, “they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied ...

From the moment Jane Kamensky took the helm of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, civic engagement was top of mind for her. It’s one of the reasons the historian and former Harvard University professor ...

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine's comments about rights not coming from creator spark debate over constitutional foundations and inalienable rights in America.