When you hear “golden letter,” you might think of royal invites or motivational posters. But the real treasure is in historical documents that have puzzled experts for ages. Consider Mary, Queen of ...

A few years ago, an auction house in Boston, Massachusetts, sold a two-page letter written from Newark that was dated March 1834. The letter included a hand-drawn map of the downtown area. It is ...

When I finished grad school in the early ’80s, I studied primary source documents to discover what our Founding Fathers and others in early American history actually wrote, believed or did. Thus, I ...

When people say the Second Amendment should be abolished because it was “written for muskets,” they’re ignoring both history and logic. If we applied that reasoning across the Constitution, we’d also ...