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"Joseph Ellis Op-Ed: Hear What the Founders are Saying," Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2022

"Author interviews with Joseph Ellis,"  Mount Vernon Organization Library, 2021

"Joseph J. Ellis Talk at the New York Society Library," October 18, 2021

"The True Character of the American Revolution? It's Complicated,"  Washington Post, Oct. 1, 2021

"Two of America's Leading Historians Look at the Nation's Founding Once Again,"  NY Times, Oct. 8, 2021

"What We Got Wrong about the Founders,"  The Hill, July 4, 2021

"Hugh Hewitt, Opinion, This Fourth,"  Washington Post, July 2, 2021

"Opinion: This Fourth, Recall the Revolution,"  Washington Post, July 2, 2021

"Trump: Worst. President. Ever,"  Los Angeles Times, January 1, 2021

"What Benjamin Franklin Warned Us About,"  CNN, September 2, 2020

"Ellis speaks out on Impeachment,"  Erin Burnett's CNN Show, October 27, 2019

"What Does the Second Amendment Really Mean?,"  AmericanHeritage.com, October 2019

"The Amazon rainforest is still burning and we're all in danger,"  Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2019

"The Green Deal Isn't Socialism,"  CNN Opinion, April 18, 2019

"What Did the Founders Intend?,"  Dallas Morning News, April 18, 2019

"What Would the Founders Say About America Today?,"  DianeRehm.org, December 4, 2018

"American Dialogue,"  Utah Public Radio, November 12, 2018

"Problem the Founders kicked down the road,"  Boston Globe, November 9, 2018

"Arguing with the founders about where we've gone wrong,"  Washington Post, November 8, 2018

"The Founders Look at Modern America,"  New York Times, October 30, 2018

"Joseph Ellis Gives His Take: Can Americans move past the political division?,"  Fox News, Oct. 19, 2018

"John Adams' Fears About America's Future Feels Pretty Darn Prescient Today,"  Mother Jones, Oct. 18, 2018

"Joseph Ellis Examines the Political Thinking of Four Founding Fathers,"  C-SPAN, October 16, 2018

"The Supreme Court Was Never Meant to be Political,"  Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2018

"Legacies of the Founders,"  C-SPAN, April 5, 2018

"Best-Selling Historian Joseph J. Ellis Explains what the Founding Fathers Got Wrong,"  Time, Oct. 18, 2021

"Can Joe Biden Flip American Government from Them to Us,"  LA Times, May 1, 2021

"The Thomas Jefferson Hour,"  February 27, 2018

"Joseph Ellis: GOP is trying to erase ver 100 years of history,"  CNN Opinion, December 13, 2017

"Purdue University Presidential Lecture Series,"  YouTube, September 14, 2017

"Conversation with Joseph Ellis,"  Journal & Courier, September 8, 2017

"Joseph J. Ellis: Credit Trump with showing us America's reality on race,"  CNN Opinion, Aug. 17, 2017

"Historians: Robert E. Lee and George Washington Are Not Equivalent,"  Time, August 17, 2017

"Historian: What would Founding Fathers think of Donald Trump,"  CNN Opinion, May 5, 2016

"John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit by James Traub,"  The New York Times Book Review, April 4, 2016

"Joseph Ellis Finds Teaching Complements Writing Process,"  The Boston Globe, May 2, 2015

"Trees offer a way to delay the consequences of climate change,"  The Washington Post, Sept. 21, 2014

"Could the Founding Fathers solve today's political gridlock?,"  Los Angeles Times, Feb. 21, 2014

"The American Way of War: It may surprise you,"  Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2014

"Tea party wants to take America Back,"  Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2013

"What Would George Washington Think of Election Day 2012?,"  Wall Street Journal, Nov. 6, 2012

"When American Narratives Collide,"  Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2012

"Judging Patron Saints,"  Inside Higher Ed, January 26, 2012

"Writers on a New England Stage,"  New Hampshire Public Radio, August 3, 2011

"Ellis Helps WGBY Mark Patriot's Day Week,"  WGBY, April 22, 2011

"Revolutions: The Dictators Are Gone, Now What?,"  National Public Radio, March 30, 2011

"Ellis on NPR's Talk of the Nation,"  NPR Talk of the Nation, March 30, 2011

"Ellis Talks about Adams Love Story,"  Minnesota Public Radio News, February 9, 2011

"Film Fest Features Founding Brothers,"  Finger Lakes Times, January 5, 2012

"Ellis's New Book Reviewed in NYT,"  The New York Times, December 20, 2010

"Dear John, Dear Abigail: A Love Story Through Letters,"  NPR, October 27, 2010

"Joseph J. Ellis Reads from First Family: Abigail and John Adams,"  Vanity Fair, October 4, 2010

"Ellis Writes on Constitutional Compromise,"  American Heritage, May 7, 2010

"Immaculate Misconception and the Supreme Court,"  The Washington Post, May 7, 2010

"American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic,"  LA Times, Feb. 1, 2010

"Are 'They' Or 'We' The Government?,"  National Public Radio, August 10, 2009

"Madison's Radical Agenda,"  American Heritage, February 25, 2010

"Why the Fourth is a Fraud," The Daily Beast, July 3, 2009

"Historians' Advice for Dick Cheney," The New York Times, June 27, 2009

"Joseph Ellis: History of Inaugural Addresses,"  Newsweek, January 19, 2009

"Ellis Speaks on Bush Legacy on CBS,"  CBS News, January 13, 2009

"James Madison and the Constitution,"  C-SPAN, October 2, 2008

"How George Washington's Savvy Won the Day,"  U.S. News & World Report, June 27, 2008

"If You Could Travel in Time, Where Would You Go?,"  National Public Radio, March 11, 2008

"The better angels' side with Obama,"  Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2008

"A Promise of Unpredictability,"  Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2008

"What Would George Do?,"  The Washington Post, December 23, 2007

"NYT Reviews Ellis's Newest Book,"  The New York Times, November 12, 2007

"Behind the Myths of America's 'Creation',"   NPR, November 5, 2007

"A Promise of Unpredictability,"  Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2007

"Finding a Place for 9/11 in American History,"  The New York Times, January 28, 2005

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"The U.S. alone is saddled with the electoral college," Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2024

"Joseph J. Ellis: The Ideals of the Founders are on the Ballot," New York Times, October 27, 2024

"John Adam's rationale for virtue with Joseph Ellis," Country Over Self, October, 2024