Chronicles the life of Charles Pinckney, discussing his childhood on his family's Charleston plantation, service in the state militia during the Revolution, involvement in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and influence on the country ...

Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers these questions by focusing on the everyday production of South Carolina's state space—its roads and canals, borders and boundaries, public buildings and military fortifications.

In Patriotism and Piety, Jonathan Den Hartog argues that the question of how religion would function in American society was decided in the decades after the Constitution and First Amendment established a legal framework.

The deadlocked election of 1800 has earned considerable attention and debate from historians; now James Roger Sharp reveals that modern observers didn't necessarily get it right.

A Magnificent Catastrophe is history writing at its evocative best: the riveting story of the last great contest of the founding period.

A true-life suspense story, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that had come to define the nation, then and now.

Although the proslavery side won important concessions, he asserts, antislavery impulses also influenced the framers’ work.