The Man Who Loved His Wife
No single American Founder lived to be so badly burned by the work of his own hands as John Adams.
The Otis Family and the Revolution: On Just Missing Out
Most Americans know the mythology of the American Founding—its key events, characters, and narrative arc.
Gouverneur Morris
That there are “forgotten Founders” is a truth universally acknowledged among students of the American Founding.
Phillis Wheatley: Our First African-American Poet
No gravestone marks the place of Phillis Wheatley’s rest. Of course, this is not unusual.
Judith Sargent Murray and Equality of Virtue
In 1790, two years before Mary Wollstonecraft published her Vindication of the Rights of Woman, an American woman with the pen name “Constantia” released her own treatise on the equality of the sexes.
MLK Day Reflections
Ford Fellows have responded to this prompt: On Monday, January 16th, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, commemorating “the universal, unconditional love, forgiveness and nonviolence that empowered his revolutionary spirit.” How have Dr. King’s ideas and message shaped your own political thinking and how have they affected your life?
