The President called up the National Guard, using the Executive’s emergency powers, to force compliance by Americans with government authority. He declared the insurrectionists’ acts “subversive of ...

In 1794, just six years after it began, just about everyone expected the strange American political experiment to fail. President Washington, the British and the Spanish governments, most of the ...

Just a few years after the Constitution was ratified, the fledgling U.S. government faced its first internal crisis. The Whiskey Rebellion erupted in response to Alexander Hamilton’s controversial ...

The 13th annual Whiskey Rebellion Festival brought music, history, food and, of course, whiskey to downtown Washington Friday and Saturday. Named after the 1790s uprising against the federal ...

John Wind’s kitschy send-up of Revolutionary War heroes pokes holes in the masculine image at the Museum of the American Revolution. John Y. Wind made a sculpture out of a decanter shaped like Baron ...