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Constitution Day
The following is an excerpt from Melvin Yazawa’s new book, Contested Conventions: The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and save the Union, 1787—1789 in honor of Constitution Day on 17 September. Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who famously...
All Roads Lead to NPS
The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial anniversary in the month of August! NPS has served as a valuable resource for many of our authors, both professionally and recreationally. To commemorate the occasion, our authors have taken to the blog...
Hamilton: An American Public Opinion Theorist?
Given the ubiquity of opinion polls – especially in this election season – and the keen attention devoted to parsing their statistical snapshots of public moods and preferences, it can be easy to assume that the term "public opinion" has always described an...
Energy and Our Nationalist Moment
This post is part of our July “Unexpected America” blog series, focused on intriguing or surprising American history research from 1776 to today. Check back with us all month to see what new scholarship our authors have to share! (Photo Credit Nicholas Raymond...
Running We Know Not Whither: 1788 vs. 2016
For someone who spends much of her time in the eighteenth century, studying men like James Madison and George Washington, the specter of Donald Trump as a standard-bearer for our American Republic is astounding. Sure, the country has convulsed before...
Behind the Book: The Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798
I have been teaching a class called Liberty vs. Security about the politics of speech from Colonial America through the Civil War for a few years. In this class, we talk about when and why American governments have (or attempted) to limit speech, whether these...