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name: "Publius"
subtitle: "All 85 Federalist Papers, presented one by one as they first ran in 1787-88"
date: 2026-07-24
link: "https://federalistreader.org"
linkText: "federalistreader.org"
source: "Kottke.org"
topics: [history-and-archives, learning-and-reference]
tags: [founding-documents, reading, typography, history]
description: "A free online reading edition of all 85 Federalist Papers, set in a period newspaper style and paced the way New York readers first encountered them in 1787-88."
---

Publius presents the Federalist Papers the way their first readers met them: one essay at a time, in the New-York newspaper voice they actually ran in during 1787 and 1788. All 85 are here in their original words, with an optional clean-reading view and short companion notes on the recurring arguments — faction, separated powers, the presidency, the courts. Progress saves privately in your browser; no account required.