Abraham Lincoln

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.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, what happened there is finally more widely known—but other "Black Wall Street" stories remain hidden.

A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.

A brief history of trick photography.

Lovejoy, who ran a weekly paper called the Observer, was repeatedly targeted by mobs over his persistent writings against slavery.

The Lincolns had four sons. Mary buried three of them. A new exhibit at President Lincoln's Cottage sheds light on bereaved parents, then and now.

Mark Edmundson on the great American poet as a defender of democracy.