Abraham Lincoln

A review of Eric Foner's The Second Founding.

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.

Worried that the presidential power to undo convictions can be taken too far? Look no further than Lincoln’s successor.

In 1860, a novel paramilitary-style organization mobilized hundreds of thousands against the Southern planter class.

How a monument that championed black sacrifice in the name of emancipation was forgotten.

The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become a flashpoint in today’s reckoning with racist statues.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

The National Statuary Collection announced the unification of the former slave economy’s emotional heartland with the heart of national government.

Keep in mind what it meant to the people who created it.

An Illinois high school teacher explains how his state complicates the binary of “free states” and “slave states.”

What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.

A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.

Could Donald Trump really rival James Buchanan?

How did the struggle for emancipation become a mass politics?

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.

History is not kind to those who divide and dither.

Daina Ramey Berry details the life of the outspoken activist Sojourner Truth and her legendary speaking tour.

Mass lynchings of Black people following the Civil War.