The Historic Documents in this set cover the Gilded Age and the New Deal Era from 1877 through 1945. During this period, Americans engaged in vigorous debates over Jim Crow segregation, women’s rights ...

Thomas Jefferson was portrayed by Caleb Tracy and James Madison was portrayed by John Zak in partnership with Historic Philadelphia, Inc. Julie Silverbrook is chief content and learning officer at the ...

In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts with the support of the Adams Administration. The Alien Act granted the President unilateral authority to deport non-citizens who were subjects of ...

John Locke (1632-1704) was the author of A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689), An Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690), Two Treatises on Government (1690), and other works. In the period ...

What rights does the United States share with other countries around the world? At least 32 separate rights are found in the United States Constitution; explore which other countries have adopted ...

Explore essays from leading scholars, historians, judges, and thinkers examining the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the enduring principles that continue to shape American life.

On July 4, 1776, the United States officially declared its independence from the British Empire when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was ...

How Was the Bill of Rights Ratified? On September 25, 1789, the First Congress of the United States proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution in a Joint Resolution of Congress. Ten of the proposed 12 ...

Charles Pinckney effectively participated in the Constitutional Convention in 1878 and contributed to the final version of the Constitution. He later served as Minister to Spain. Charles Pinckney was ...

Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford Law School The Sixth Amendment guarantees a cluster of rights designed to make criminal prosecutions more accurate, ...

Dr. Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute argues that the defense of liberty requires multiple answers to a fundamental political question: who rules? Mary Sarah Bilder reviews how over two ...