Sean Wilentz

In the autumn of 1834, New York City was awash with rumors of a strange religious cult operating nearby, centered around a mysterious, self-styled prophet named Matthias....

Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....

Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage. The acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently....

One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years....

A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy....

The best historians in the land consider examples of great leadership, well known and surprising, from Washington to Willkie and more....