Abraham Lincoln

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.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

Slavery and the legacy of white supremacy.

To alleviate voters' fears during the Civil War, Northern governors refused to open their states to formerly enslaved refugees.

Abolishing slavery wasn’t enough. Someone had to actually free the enslaved people of the American south.

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?

The horrors of the fugitive slave laws, the costs of union, and the value of comity.

Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.

Abortion and America’s new sectional divide.