As the USA celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a leading historian talks about why it ...

With a 250th birthday in sight, we wanted to ask Americans what it means to be an American and reflect on what the founders built, who they left out and what in that 250-year history has been left ...

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage. By Richard Kreitner Joseph J. Ellis’s “The Cause” and Gordon S ...

Professor Joseph J. Ellis is one of the nation's leading scholars of American history. The author of eleven books, Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for _Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary ...

The recently ratified Articles of Confederation theoretically uniting them were "less a constitution than a diplomatic treaty among sovereign powers." The feckless Confederation Congress lacked power ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis will discuss America's most politically formative years in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library on Wednesday, Jan. 7. His talk, "American ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis will discuss America's most politically formative years in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library on Wednesday, Jan. 7. His talk, "American ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In the world of American historians, Thomas Jefferson is considered a tad overexposed. That’s why Joseph Ellis’ 1997 National Book Award-winning American Sphinx was such a coup. Here was the familiar ...

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