A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.

In Federalist No. 70, Alexander Hamilton wrote ... He enforced the fugitive slave laws. He upheld the letter of the Constitution. And he bit his lip, waiting for a moment when principle ...

President Donald Trump 's treasury secretary Scott Bessent offered an extensive defense of the administration's decision to ...

The world, including Canada, is unlikely to forgive and certainly won’t forget how unsettled Trump rendered the economic and ...

"Hamitlon" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda uses dual casting to create instant emotional investment with the audience as characters move in and out of Alexander ... that owned slaves and colonial ...

That 1798 law is the Alien Enemies Act, which allows the president certain powers to detain and deport those from enemy ...

As Alexander Hamilton explained in The Federalist ... He issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves under his sole commander-in-chief authority. Lincoln subsequently sought the ...

In Federalist 81, founding father Alexander Hamilton made it clear that the courts ... which held effectively that once a slave always a slave. Advertisement When Lincoln delivered his First ...

Unlike Alexander Hamilton, an impoverished bastard child ... Lincoln believed the United States could not exist half slave and half free. Yet even he might have thrown up his hands over how ...