Abraham Lincoln

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”

How the self-proclaimed "First Widow" used her celebrity to influence public opinion.

Cailloux’s valor, and the Black troops he led in battle, electrified northern opinion and gave federal race policy a strong jolt.

How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.

The inspiration for the 1964 “Extremism in the defense of liberty” speech he wrote for Barry Goldwater.

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

For more than a century, U.S. wars of invasion have claimed a humanitarian mantle.

George Henry Thomas, southerner in blue.

Frederick Douglass and Republican legislators had high hopes for Andrew Johnson—but ended up impeaching him.

What the Dred Scott v. Sandford case meant for black citizenship.

A favorite icon of critical race theory proponents doesn’t say what they want him to say.

Learning the history of Mexico can help Americans better understand themselves.

On Juneteenth, we should remember both the struggle against chattel slavery and the struggle for radical freedom during Reconstruction.

Millions of Americans gained freedom from slavery in a slow-moving wave of emancipation during the Civil War and in the months afterward.

I had sung the Black National Anthem countless times, but hearing those words reverberate around me in this place, on this day, moved me in a new way.

This year’s Juneteenth commemorations must take a deeper look at the history of Black self-liberation to understand what emancipation really means.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.

The Chicago Monuments Project is searching for ways to resolve its landscape of problematic statues and make room for a new, different kind of public memorial.