Five questions. One Founding Father. Discover which architect of the Republic shares your instincts.
Discover Your Founder →Hamilton and Jefferson agreed on independence. On everything else, they fought to the end. Every generation has to pick a side.
Order. Industry. A strong Republic.
Liberty. Agrarian virtue. Power to the states.
Six men. Six stories. Each one a lesson in how to build something that lasts.
"I knew Hamilton was important. I didn't know he was this interesting."
"Five minutes a day felt like nothing. Three weeks later I've finished all of Franklin."
You don't just learn about the Founders. You learn to think like them.
Each lesson is a series of illustrated cards. Stories, not lectures. Done in 5 minutes.
Every lesson ends with a quick quiz. Not to grade you — to sharpen your thinking.
Discover how Franklin learned from Socrates. How Jefferson read Cicero. The Republic didn't come from nowhere.
Socrates. Cicero. Aristotle. Plutarch. The Founders stood on their shoulders. So should you.
In 1787, three men set out to convince America to ratify its new Constitution. They wrote 85 essays — brilliant, urgent, persuasive — and published them all under one pseudonym: Publius.
"It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country... to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice."— Federalist No. 1, Publius (Alexander Hamilton)
Those three men were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Their essays became The Federalist Papers — the most important political writing in American history.
We named this app after them because Publius did exactly what we're trying to do: make the ideas behind America accessible to everyone. Publius was the pen name. The mission was to make the ideas of the Republic legible to everyone. That mission is unfinished.
5 questions. One Founding Father. Find out where you stand.
Begin the Quiz →Free to download. Start with Franklin. You'll be hooked by card three.
Available on iOS and Android. Free.
