Barely-disguised hostilities sometimes belied the rebels’ declared identity as the United States of America.
Lynn Uzzell
Past and Prologue will make even the most idealistic historians question whether an unbiased history of America has ever been attempted, much less attained
It may be counted among our fledgling nation’s good fortune that a small pocket of Virginia somehow cultivated an enormous concentration of talent.
Trevor Colbourn seeks to understand the intellectual world the Founders inhabited, in part, by compiling inventories of what they read.
Craig Bruce Smith shows that honor was a vitally important concept for the development of the American nation.
Any theory that develops under parochial circumstances (legal scholars only) will be ripe for debunking.
Historians' ready embrace of Madison’s Hand calls into question their purported qualifications for understanding constitutional history.
If they are to maintain credibility with those who are not already sold on their views, originalists need to respect the discipline of history.
These digital images prove that Madison's account of the Convention is far more trustworthy than the spate of scholarship that has sought to discredit it.
Lynn Uzzell teaches American politics and political theory at the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee University. For four years she was the scholar in residence at James Madison's Montpelier.