In her new book, Founding Gardeners ... Why was gardening so important to the founding fathers? The most obvious answer is that good crops were incredibly important to the economy and to America ...

Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics ...

In his new book, Minority Rule, Berman connects the debates and compromises of the country's founders to contemporary politics. He says the founding fathers created a system that concentrated ...