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It is only natural that a conversation about an autobiography turns to a conversation about vanity. After all, who writes a book about himself? In his "Autobiography,"  ...

On June 8, 1789, James Madison rose before Congress and performed an about-face. The founder who had opposed the addition of a bill of rights to the Constitution conceded to pressure from advocates ...

Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding. Expand the number of core ideas under consideration to three and you get unalienable rights ...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138-78 BC) was a patrician aristocrat who entered the army under the general Gaius Marius. In the Roman war against Numidia in North Africa, Sulla was instrumental in defeating ...

In the late 1980s, some U.S. Army linguists prepared to fight a war in Chevrolet pickup trucks. Both those Chevies and the linguists inside them would fail in a war. And when the Gulf War began in 199 ...

With the 1798 Alien Enemies Law in the news as the Trump administration attempts to remove foreign nationals from the United States without the typically required legal processes, a historical view pr ...

A scrap of paper in the Massachusetts State Archives tells a great story. Dated August 1775, it is an invoice for £11, one shilling (about $2,000 today) submitted to the Massachusetts provi ...

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was a man of many talents whose life provides an interesting pivotal transitional point from the American Revolution on one side of the Atl ...

Fifty years ago, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution equating Zionism with racism and racial discrimination. Resolution 3379, which was adopted on the 10th of No ...

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, who had covertly aided the American Revolution, had long coveted his civil rights. And in the France of the 1780s, he used the theater not only as ...