Abraham Lincoln

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.

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.

Twenty-one historians explain which moments in history are closest to the Trump election - and what we can learn.

Why Pilgrims would be stunned by our "traditional" Thanksgiving table, and other surprising truths about the invention of our national holiday.

In the 1820s, Sarah Hale, a New England widow and the editor of Godey’s Ladies Book made it her mission to get Thanksgiving recognized as a national holiday.

Black veterans were once targeted for racialized violence because of the equality with whites that their military service implied.

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

Some issues are too fundamental for a party to withstand, and the consequences can last for a generation.

They were enormous, tech-savvy, and invasive in their methods—and they enlisted Abraham Lincoln into their ranks.