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The Question Without a Solution

The horrors of the fugitive slave laws, the costs of union, and the value of comity.

by Alan Jacobs via Weekly Standard on November 24, 2018

A House Still Divided

In 1858, Lincoln warned that America could not remain “half slave and half free.” The threat today is as existential as it was before the Civil War.

by Ibram X. Kendi via The Atlantic on September 13, 2018

Police officer with automatic rifle guards the US Capitol building.

Violence Against Members of Congress Has a Long, and Ominous, History

In the 1840s and 1850s, it was all too common.

by Joanne B. Freeman via Washington Post on June 15, 2017

The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys

One in four cowboys was black. So why aren’t they more present in popular culture?

by Katie Nodjimbadem via Smithsonian Magazine on February 13, 2017

Decoder: The Slave Insurance Market

How much did slave owners pay for antebellum-era policies from Aetna, AIG, and New York Life?

by Michael Ralph, William Rankin via Foreign Policy on January 16, 2017

The inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

The Most Contentious Presidential Transition in American History

Was Abraham Lincoln's the most tumultuous presidential transition in American history?

by Jon Grinspan, James M. McPherson, Peter Feuerherd, Frederic Bancroft via JSTOR Daily on November 22, 2016

Side by side photos of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump.

How Republicans Went From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump, in 13 Maps

It's been a remarkable transformation over 162 years.

by Andrew Prokop via Vox on July 20, 2016

Beards, Bachelors, and Brides: The Surprisingly Spicy Politics of the Presidential Election of 1856

Of the presidential elections in early America, few have stressed the themes of sex and gender so spicily as the heated contest of 1856.

by Thomas J. Balcerski via Commonplace on July 16, 2016

What This Cruel War Was Over

The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.

by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 22, 2015

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

by Robin Blackburn via Jacobin on August 28, 2012

Harriet Beecher Stowe imagining her characters.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Art of Persuasion

Stowe’s novel shifted public opinion about slavery so dramatically that it has often been credited with fuelling the war that destroyed the institution.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via The New Yorker on June 6, 2011

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Great Depression

Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life. But what would today be treated as a "character issue" gave Lincoln the tools to save the nation.

by Joshua Wolf Shenk via The Atlantic on October 1, 2005

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