The reliability of "Madison’s Notes" as a credible contemporaneous record of what really transpired in Philadelphia is being challenged as never before in an important new book.

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United ...

I’m finishing up The Glorious Cause, a rather gauzy and sentimental entry in the Oxford History of the United States series covering the American Revolution. But it’s not terrible, and there ...