Abraham Lincoln

With the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, George W. Bush restarts a long and troubled tradition.

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”— Robert E. Lee, at Fredericksburg

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."

Hood and Sherman exchange epistolary fire in 1864.

A collection of resources challenging the notion that the U.S. was built on nothing but injustice and subjugation.