If there is a lesson in the crisis that the nation is experiencing today, in which states do their own thing, paying minimal attention to the federal government or national issues, it is that our dark ...

Irish-born Thomas Burke died before his 40th birthday, but the North Carolinian lived long enough to wield sharp tools in constructing America’s foundation. In the spring of 1777, Burke was laboring ...

No one knows if Benjamin Franklin actually urged his fellow patriots to hang together lest they would hang separately in British gallows. That comment came at the time of the American Revolution and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On November 15, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States. However, all ...

Are we witnessing the birth of the United States of Europe? There are uncanny similarities between the current round of wheeling and dealing and the founding of the United States of America. The ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author and Constitutional Scholar Linda Monk talked about the Articles of Confederation and Shay's Rebellion.

Back in the middle of March, Ron Klain, the man President Obama charged with handling the Ebola crisis in 2014, appeared on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” to discuss the plight of governors around ...

The Brennan Center for Justice and the National Constitution Center present a symposium exploring how the Articles of Confederation shaped the U.S. Constitution. Historians, legal scholars, and ...

Their deaths demonstrate the need to tend wounds, drink moderately and be kind to your employees CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I.-September 11,1864- Constitutional Convention at Charlottetown, P.E.I., of ...

It's been three quarters of a century since Newfoundland joined Canada. While it can feel like the life and times of 1949 are a distant era, many of the issues folks faced back then are still front ...