ConText: crowd sourcing Madison’s Notes of the Constitutional Convention
On Friday, the Brookings Institution and the Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montepelier launched a new project that aims to bring to life Madison’s Notes of the Debates in the Federal...
View ArticleGettysburg at 150: The Battle and a Nation Reborn
This July marks the 150th anniversary of one of the most famous and important battles in American history: the Battle of Gettysburg. In commemoration of the event, AEI’s Program on American...
View ArticleHow Old Were the Founding Fathers?
While famous paintings of our America’s Founding Fathers typically portray them as middle-aged or older, most were actually much younger than we tend to think during the founding of the nation. Todd...
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May 25, 2015 | Weekly Standard When thought-smiths have forged on the comfortable anvil of peace the belief that all war and conflict is wicked, foolish, and on the brink of extinction, then pain...
View ArticleHistory in the Age of Fracture
History in the Age of Fracture By Wilfred M. McClay (June 2015) Download Full Report as PDF This essay is the twelfth in a series exploring the role of the professions in a modern, liberal democratic...
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