Abraham Lincoln

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.

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.