A Boat Against the Current

Sept. 17, 1787—After meeting for nearly four months behind closed doors amid a muggy Philadelphia summer, 38 of 41 delegates to the Con...

“If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which th...

You’re looking at what I think may be the most approachable statue in our nation’s capital. I came across the George Mason Memorial by...

“A good joke always distracted [New York delegate Gouverneur] Morris. The one story about him that everyone knows is about a humorous b...