Abraham Lincoln

His presidency was known for corruption, scandal, and booze. In a new book, Ron Chernow attempts to rehabilitate it.

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.

Don’t let extremists on both sides destroy honor and valor, even as they seek to destroy everything else.

Only by the most specific, immediate definition can we consider the Confederacy to have lost the Civil War.

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.

In a world where Confederate flags continue to fly, it is hard not to cry “enough” at this continued emphasis on all-things-Confederate.

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

On July 2, 1881, less than a year after President James Garfield was elected the 20th president of the United States, he was shot by Charles Guiteau.

The West cared very much about the Civil War.

As the South Carolina city prepared to break from the Union, its people swung between nostalgia and rebellion.

Leaked documents reveal coordination between big business and law enforcement to break up last year’s protests at Standing Rock.

A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.

James Comey’s testimony joins the pantheon of dramatic congressional moments.

The Confederate general has long been seen, in the South and beyond, as embodying the virtues of the ideal man.

Why hasn't Richmond faced the same controversies as New Orleans or Charlottesville?

If Jackson's presidency had been later, he may have prevented the Civil War.

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.