Abraham Lincoln

A new television miniseries depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.

Steven Spielberg’s early films conjure all of his moviemaking magic to repair a world of lost dads.

Harriet M. Buss' missives home detail the future congressman's candid views on race and the complicity of Confederate women.

We still live with the consequences of the 28th president’s fuzzy thinking.

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

The significance of New Year’s Eve ‘watch night’ services for Black Americans.

The 1619 Project claimed to reveal the unknown history of slavery. It ended up helping to distort the real history of slavery and the struggle against it.

The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War.

The Pennsylvanian was one of America’s greatest heroes. Why hasn’t he gotten his due?

On the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump.

In 1840, William Henry Harrison was mocked for his presidential run at age 67 — 15 years younger than President Biden would be at the start of a second term.

The answer reveals grave robbing problems for America’s deceased leaders.

Alexander Hamilton always believed that the providential protection that kept the small Jewish world alive would embrace his own extraordinary nation.

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality.

Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature.

The relationship between two true believers in American exceptionalism.

The Civil War general's reputation was shaped by partisan politics, editorial whims and his own personal failings.

Historian Ned Blackhawk’s new book stresses the importance of telling US history with a wider and more inclusive lens.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

The United States has forgotten the radical German American immigrant socialists who spilled blood for antislavery and other liberatory causes.