Benjamin Franklin's famous line that the United States government is a "republic, if you can keep it" is recorded only in the ...

A review of sorts Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787  (1966...

Bad history is common, especially in a world that favors crowd sourcing over the views of experts . Even experts, however, are not infallib...

There are books that I start over and over again, always returning them to the shelf before getting far. There are many reasons for this beh...

Robert F. Williams, Labor Organizer? Small things catch me. While reading a history book, I have a tendency to get pulled away on a tangen...

When I am reading, I frequently go back and reread a passage. Most often I have missed something due to inattention or interruption, as when...

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ... Preamble, United States Constitution I ...

Jesus is benevolence personified, an example for all men. John Adams How significant was Christianity to the American Revolution? To the ...

Celebrations of John Calvin's birthday have brought out a flurry of pronouncements of an old idea. Many Americans in the nineteenth cent...

History is eloquent in declaring that American democracy was born of Christianity and that Christianity was Calvinism. Loraine Boettner, Th...