Our Dear-Bought Liberty is the definitive treatment of the Catholic quest for religious toleration in America's early years.

For Manent, action is never an end in itself but must always be guided by the virtues.

The essays in this collection provide excellent reasons for offering substantial protection to what many founders called “the sacred right of conscience.”

A new history ponders the Founders’ conception of human nature and why the nation's faith in democracy is misplaced.

Spencer Roane’s ardent defense of state sovereignty and Jeffersonian republicanism rub against the traditional story of early nineteenth-century America.

Anglo-American cooperation in World War II offered a foundation for "the American Century" by making US policy global rather than hemispheric.

Lincoln prudently acted on the moral principle that slavery and its expansion was wrong and violated American principles of self-government.