It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot while watching a play at Ford’s Theater. Lincoln died the next morning, and in the aftermath, some odd facts seemed to pop up.

The late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor played a key role in some of the Supreme Court’s major decisions during her nearly 25 years on the bench. Here is a look at several of those cases involving the first woman to serve on the Court, including decisions about the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, affirmative action, abortion, and the 10th Amendment.

National Constitution Center Historic Documents Library record for Self-Help (1892)

Thomas McKean was a President before George Washington and supported judicial review before John Marshall. But today, McKean is mostly forgotten in the discussion about Founders who had a significant impact on the Constitution and the early Supreme Court.

To say that The Cabinet by Lindsay Chervinsky is an important and relevant book, one only has to look at our political climate. George Washington's Cabinet was…

Donald Trump’s war on multilateralism is misguided and dangerous.

After World War II, the vast majority of Americans—Democrats and Republicans alike—agreed that the federal government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructur...

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

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