Abraham Lincoln

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.

In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.

A new history sees the authors of the Declaration as moral agents, and sets out to capture the thinking behind the principles.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.

Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.

This is not the first time that democratic governance appeared to be under assault.

Anti-slavery protest during the Missouri statehood debate.

The paper’s series on slavery made avoidable mistakes. But the attacks from its critics are much more dangerous.

Having a single candidate by the time of the convention has been a key stepping stone for a party’s victory. But it hasn't always worked out that way.

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.

What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t.

The Editor of the American Historical Review weighs in on recent historiographical debates around the New York Times' 1619 Project.