On Oct. 27, 1787, the first of what was to become a series of essays urging ratification of the U.S. Constitution was published. Compiled into a book form in 1788 as “The Federalist” and later ...

Library of Congress, Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections Division Mark Dimunation talked about The Federalist Papers. The collection of 85 essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and ...

The New York Sun, in its heyday, was an iconic newspaper, possibly most remembered for its “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial. Seth Lipsky, and some investors, revived the old ...

Indiana soldier Nathan Harlan was a high school junior when he paid $7 at a flea market for a 1788 first edition of volume one of "The Federalist" — a two-volume book of essays calling for the ...

"This book is estimated at $75,000, which means we're going to start the bidding at $75,000," says Rare Books Director James Gannon. "But we expect this should get up between $120,000 to $150,000." ...

Prof. Emeritus David L. Wallace, a statistician who co-authored a book that revealed the answer to one of American history’s most enduring questions, died on Oct. 9. He was 88. Historians had puzzled ...

The Indiana Supreme Court Law Library has an excerpt of Federalist Paper No. 65, believed to have been written by Alexander Hamilton. Photo by Connor Burress, TheStatehouseFile.com. The basement ...

Collected in book form, the first edition was a limited run of just 500 copies. “It’s something like a paperback of the day,” said Paul Carrese, founding director of the leadership school.

When computers were big as a Volkswagen and far more slow, David L. Wallace used data analysis to solve a historical riddle from the 1780s. He helped deduce that 12 of the Federalist papers were ...

According to Circana, which tracks around 85% of the print retail market, editions of the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers and the U.S. Constitution are selling at their fastest ...

Mark Dimunation talked about The Federalist Papers. The collection of 85 essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were written in 1787-88 to encourage the states to ratify the ...