Author Walter Isaacson is drawn to minds that bend the world. He writes about men who catch lightning, who bottle reason, who ...

As the Declaration of Independence approaches its 250th anniversary, Walter Isaacson shifts his focus from inventors to the profound impact of a singular line that has shaped a nation and continues to ...

"Knowing that natural rights cannot be taken away by government serves as a check on the power of the state," writes John ...

Next year, the United States is set to celebrate a major milestone: 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of ...

Walter Isaacson, the former media executive who has written a shelfful of magisterial biographies on Benjamin Franklin and ...

In the next several days, Simon & Schuster will bring forth a little book, 7 inches tall and 5 inches wide, that should shake the country. It is called “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written,” and in its ...

You and I, my dear Friend, have been sent into life, at a time when the greatest lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to have lived.” ...

Today marks 162 years since President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, and in Cambridge, that historic ...

Wokeness, paired with unhinged hatred of President Donald Trump, can infect even a respected filmmaker's work. According to ...

America as a nation and as an idea. That might have been regarded as conventional wisdom not all that long ago, but ...

"The American Revolution" is a sweeping, six-part PBS docuseries that feels like a confrontation of how America's founding ideals were born ...