When we celebrate the Declaration of Independence, it’s important to remember Thomas Jefferson himself believed that each new generation needed to make the American creed its own. And everyone from ...

There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

I. The crisis of the new order. -- American democracy in a revolutionary age -- The Republican interest and the self-created democracy -- The making of Jeffersonian democracy -- Jefferson's two ...

Exactly a century ago, the journalist Claude Bowers published “Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America.” In Bowers’s telling, Thomas Jefferson was at the root of everything ...

Pt. 1: resurrection -- The election of 1828 -- Jefferson's memoirs -- Virginia: state rights, democracy, and slavery -- South Carolina nullifications -- Pt. 2 ...