Each fall, I teach a seminar called Recent Books on the Constitution. I initially designed this course when I visited Georgetown in 2005. At that time, because I tend to read what relates directly to ...

Two days after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, in September 1862, Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus throughout the United States, subjecting all Americans to the threat of ...

When Peachtree first released Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today, back in September 2017, the Trump administration was still in its early ...

In this extremely timely book, Prof. Brettschneider reminds us that, in order for our government to work as it was meant to, each branch—Executive, Legislative and Judicial—must work with the other.

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...

How, in the Year of Our Crisis 2024, do we feel about the Founding Fathers? For many Americans, they are inspirational figures deserving of uncomplicated reverence — the creators of modern liberal ...

It’s by now a wearily familiar ritual: The case against a foundational right or freedom—ballot access, uncorrupted elections, broadly affordable health care, reproductive rights—gains a hearing before ...

NEW YORK — When Random House Publisher Andrew Ward met recently with staff editors to discuss potential book projects, conversation inevitably turned to current events and the Trump administration.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Gordon S. Wood THE CROOKED PATH TO ABOLITION Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution By ...