Founding Fathers

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution....

Professor Woods's book reveals facts that you won't be, or never were, taught in school....

In American Gospel, New York Times best-selling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life....

In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent...

What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels?  That is the question H. W. Brands answers....

A soul-stirring biography of John Marshall, the young Republic's great chief justice who led the Supreme Court to power and brought law and order to the nation....

Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea....

A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the founding father dead....

This audio set from the acclaimed Eminent Lives series is a must for anyone interested in the story of America....

Uncover the incredible lives and legacies of the most important presidents of all time. Inside this biography bundle, you’ll explore the unique and influential lives of five founding fathers and the earliest US presidents....

He is the star of a hit Broadway musical, the face on the 10-dollar bill, and a central figure among the founding fathers. But do you really know Alexander Hamilton? Find out....

A major new biography of the fourth US president, from New York Times best-selling author Lynne Cheney. James Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today. This majestic new biography tells his story....

Professor Larry Schweikart once again challenges liberal historians and their shameful attempts to distort our country’s legacy....

Glenn Beck revisited Thomas Paine’s famous pre-Revolutionary War call to action in his #1 New York Times bestseller Glenn Beck’s Common Sense....

Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there....

Little has been known of one of the most important figures in early American history, Dr. Joseph Warren, an architect of the colonial rebellion, and a man who might have led the country as Washington or Jefferson did had he not been martyred at Bunker Hill in 1775....

Wolf outlines in this citizen call to action - which is reminiscent of Thomas Paine's revered Common Sense - the real threats to our civil liberties that exist....

Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father, key to the fight against slavery? Find out....

Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton’s devoted wife - in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s phenomenal musical Hamilton. But they don’t know her full story....

On May 15, 2003, David McCullough presented "The Course of Human Events" as The 2003 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC....