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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YORK, Pa. — The city of York has a whole lot of history. It's even where a drafting of the Articles of Confederation took place before its adoption on Nov. 15, 1777. "The Articles of Confederation ...

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 ...

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 ...