Like so many other Americans, I was captivated as a child by the stories in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House novels and in Michael Landon’s TV show inspired by the books.

Among Gerald Ford’s firsts was to be the first Republican to make a place in the White House for a full-time scholar.

John Jay is the neglected author of The Federalist. He only wrote five of the papers, but four of them are among the first five.

Last week we introduced our readers to The Federalist, that collection of essays essential to understanding the animating ideas and principles of American Constitutionalism.

Over the next months, we will be presenting a series on The Federalist, which many persons and scholars take to be the definitive interpretation of The Constitution.

The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the Constitution.

In his 1979 autobiography, “A Time to Heal,” President Ford mentioned former President Woodrow Wilson.

It is the fatal habit of college professors to seek out and try to exploit “teachable moments”

No single American Founder lived to be so badly burned by the work of his own hands as John Adams.

Most Americans know the mythology of the American Founding—its key events, characters, and narrative arc.

This week’s Heritage Essay is a little longer than usual, mostly because of the length of the speech excerpted, but also because of the importance of the topic and the interesting way in which it is handled.

We’ve been writing a series of essays on the importance of symbols in political life, with a special focus on the flag as an avatar of the nation.

Last week I discussed the importance of symbols in political life, and of the flag in particular.

Dwight David Eisenhower was known as a man of dispassionate and independent judgment.

In 1988, Michael Dukakis, the Democrat’s nominee for president, faced a crisis.

Presidents are largely defined by how they deal with crises, and no president had to deal with a greater crisis than did Abraham Lincoln.

Ever since Ford pardoned Nixon, the perspective of the press and the nation changed.

Last week we introduced readers to John Marshall, one of the most consequential and least-known members of the founding generation.

Many Americans know the names of Washington and Jefferson and could probably tell you a thing or two about that person but display little to no familiarity with a figure who rightfully claims a place alongside them as an important figure of the so-called founding generation: John Marshall.

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross,” Sinclair Lewis probably never said.