Should lies about his military service by a prize-winning historian color the public perception of his written work and his stature as an authority? Or should the two matters be thought of as separate ...

Mar. 12—Making a peripheral scan of Joseph J. Ellis' latest book, "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents 1773-1783," some readers may think the book dives deep into some of the ...

In 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump lost the popular election by several million votes. But in 2016 he won in the Electoral College with slim majorities in several toss-up states. That is the only way he ...

The founders seldom speak to me directly, but after the horrendous display of chaos during the first presidential debate and the coronavirus crisis in the White House afterward--a week in which ...

In her September 7 article on Mount Holyoke College’s decision to suspend the historian Joseph J. Ellis for his years of lying to his students about himself, Ana Marie Cox notes that “the veracity of ...

The founders have much to tell us about current problems, none of it simple, according to this incisive study of American political creeds. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Ellis (American Sphinx) ...

The Founding Fathers have been recast as a cavalier, racist bunch of late. In American Creation, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis argues they were simply improvising in the face of ...