John Marshall Biography Shows How Nation Landed in Good Hands It is a compact Horatio Alger-like story of the youngest and relatively unheralded member of the esteemed company of founders.

Named after the nation’s first chief justice, John Marshall Harlan was born “on the very hinge of a society splitting in half,” writes Peter S. Canellos in his sweeping new biography of ...

A new biography explores the long-running rivalry between the Federalist chief justice John Marshall and his Democratic–Republican second cousin, President Thomas Jefferson.

Journalist Robert Strauss recalled the life and impact of America's fourth Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall. This was a virtual event hosted by George Washington's Mount Vernon.

John Marshall is America’s most important jurist. Biographers are universally laudatory of the “Great Chief Justice.” A recent documentary about him (in which I am interviewed) is subtitled ...

Peter S. Canellos is a managing editor at Politico and author of the coming biography “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero.” The Supreme Court ...

His books helped restore the reputations of Grant and Eisenhower and return John Marshall to the forefront of the American story. By Katharine Q. Seelye Jean Edward Smith, a political scientist ...

John Marshall was born in a logcabin on the fringe of the Virginia frontier three months after Braddock’s defeat in 1755. He was the eldest of fifteen children, all of whom lived to be married.