Abraham Lincoln

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.

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

How John and Jessie Frémont explored the frontiers of legend-making.

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.

Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.

"I look back now and realize I was teaching a lot of misconceptions."

What 1619 has become to the history of American slavery, 1688 is to the history of American antislavery.

From colonial times to the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was very different from the holiday we know now.