Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay ...

John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic, she offers a compelling exploration of the rise and tumultuous tenure ...

However, voters cast their ballots before news of the treaty arrived in the U.S. The lack of a treaty and the split in the ...

President George Washington issued his Farewell Address on this day in history, Sept. 19, 1796. He spoke proudly of the new ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with historian Lindsay Chervinsky about lessons on the American presidency that can be learned from the then fledgling nation's second president, John Adams.

The acclaimed new biography of the second president reveals how division, insurrection, and repression threatened the young ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author and historian Lindsay Chervinsky talked about why this election has been called "The Revolution of 1800." In the election of 1800, Vice ...

In “Making the Presidency,” Lindsay M. Chervinsky argues that John Adams established what it means to be America’s commander ...

UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus William Leuchtenburg is celebrating his 102nd birthday this month. He was born on Sept. 28 ...

The last time an administration had two presidential competitors from different parties end up in the same administration was ...