A centuries-old secret document unravels the origin story of America and reveals the intellectual crime of the millennia in this epic dive into our country's history to discover the first…

Alexander Hamilton, unlike many of the other Founding Fathers of the United States, was born outside of wedlock and was an orphan at the age of thirteen after his mother…

America’s founding mothers and fathers built gender into the very foundation of American politics. This book shows how the subordination of women and men who failed to measure up to…

Kostyal tells the story of the great American heroes who created the Declaration of Independence, fought the American Revolution, shaped the US Constitution–and changed the world. The era’s dramatic events…

The founding fathers emphasized a system in which the people were allowed to play only a limited role. Radical democrats insisted that the people, and only the people, should rule…

Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world’s most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than…

In 1800, irascible patriot Noah Webster set out to define the American language by collecting every word used in the U.S. Websterisms chronicles the labors of the man who is…

In Founding Father, Michael F. Lombardo provides the first critical biography of John J. Wynne, S.J. (1859-1948), founding editor of the Catholic Encyclopedia and America, and vice-postulator for the canonization…