Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly two and a half centuries ago, Alexander Hamilton authored the first of the Federalist Papers. As "CBS Evening News" ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

Alexander Hamilton — aide to Gen. George Washington during the Revolutionary War, an author of the Federalist Papers, the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury and the guy on the $10 bill — was ...

In 1787-1788, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote a series of newspaper articles, The Federalist Papers, under the pen name Publius, in which they argued for the ratification of our ...

Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr. The two men despised each other. The last two times in these pages, I outlined the grinding, seething, and acrimonious disgust that the two political ...

On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle. When the duel was ...

Presents all eighty-five Federalist papers written by the pseudonymous Publius, along with the sixteen letters of Brutus, the still unknown New York Antifederalist.

Introduction by Benjamin Fletcher Wright -- The first national referendum -- The authorship of The federalist -- The aims of a more perfect union -- Human nature, motives, and factions -- The new ...

On politics, the people, and great men. How Americans underrate their achievement. Our governing principles were forged in the heat of partisan strife between the Federalists and the ...