Abraham Lincoln

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.

Awaiting a Senate trial might curtail Trump's worst behaviors.

“No harm if true; but, in fact, not true.”

The ‘reasonable’ right’s persecution rhetoric echoes the Confederacy’s defense of slavery.

People have passionate feelings about the oddball punctuation. Here are some things you probably didn't know about it.

The Declaration of Independence advocates for liberty and equality. We would do well to remember those principles today.

Buttigieg believes he probably won’t be the first gay president if he’s elected in 2020.

During the Civil War, surrendering was an honorable way of accepting defeat — under the right circumstances.

Congress had the final say on the design for the slain president’s monument. The competition was intense.

Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers.

After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, Democrats declared slavery opposition radical and fringe. Then came 1860.

The Great Emancipator has a lesson for today's Democrats about how to play constitutional hardball.

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.