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Portrait of LaFayette, Samuel F.B. Morse 1831

October 5, 2026

by Jeff Steinberg-   With the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally securing the independence of the United States, the Continental Army, along with the espionage networks that played such a vital role in winning the war, was dismantled. With the Treaty signing and the withdrawal of

The Signing of the Constitution, an oil by Thomas Rossiter. Courtesy of the New York Historical Society

September 18, 2026

As we conclude Constitution Week, on the 238th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States, we revisit Nancy Spannaus’s reflections on the little-understood, fundamental principles of that document.  The following post was published in September 2017,  just a few months after Nancy’s founding of this blog.

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