In “Desolation Row” (1965) Bob Dylan sings, “And everybody’s shouting / ‘Which side are you on?’” The line captures what it has felt like over the past few years to be a reader of American history. In ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. The Founding Fathers are usually ...

It's a fundamental tension in a democracy: How do you have majority rule in a way that also protects minority rights? Journalist Ari Berman says the Founding Fathers struggled with that question back ...

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Lists containing the names of some of the U.S. Founding Fathers and their respective ages on July 4, 1776, the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted, have circulated online since at least ...

There are many historical reasons to believe in these events, which I’ve addressed in previous columns, such as this and this. Meanwhile, as a student of American history, I find it fascinating that, ...

Rome was great, and America can be greater still if it can remember both Nature and Nature’s God: In the dying words of Mercy Otis Warren’s tragic heroine in the Founding-era play The Sack of Rome, ...