Abraham Lincoln

An 1848 investigative news story that relied on heavy data analysis snared big fish, including two future presidents.

The holiday emerged not from the 17th century, but rather from concerns over immigration and urbanization in the 19th century.

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

As the hunger for more farmland stretched west, so too did the demand for enslaved labor.

Who were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, and the rest of the first 16 US presidents, what did they do, and what do they hope history has forgotten?

Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.

There was a time when Americans valued 'competency' over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.

An hour of stories about a few high-stakes inaugurations from the past.

Why we pay.

Thaddeus Stevens was a fearsome reformer who never backed down from a fight.

Jim Downs discusses the plight of freed slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

John Adams would not be happy to see what Independence Day has become.

Why did Carter G. Woodson choose February, and what was his vision for the annual commemoration?

Wearing shiny black capes and practicing infantry drills had nothing to do with preparing for civil war.

The forgotten history of Thanksgiving.

A century ago, Springfield, Illinois, descended into a two-day spasm of racial violence and mayhem that still has the power to shock.

They’re horrid and useless. Why do pennies persist?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.