Eli Merritt

Merritt is a political historian at Vanderbilt University. He writes the Substack newsletter American Commonwealth and is the author of prize-winning history book, Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution

Recent Articles

What Made America's Founders Perpetuate Slavery

The founders did virtually nothing to abolish slavery because, fearing for their lives, they put their own safety first, writes Eli Merritt.

By Eli Merritt

America's Founding Was a Marriage of Inconvenience

The American Founders united in 1776 with the guns of civil war pointing at their backs

By Eli Merritt
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