Abraham Lincoln

Why 1776 became the year Americans declared themselves an independent nation.

The survival of slave trading during the Civil War suggests that enslaved people remained valuable commodities in a time of economic upheaval.

There are parallels between the John Brown raid and the murder of Charlie Kirk. But only one man seized the moment to start changing the course of history.

In correspondence with an abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn’t hold back when talking about Abraham Lincoln, or the maligned Andrew Johnson.

Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.

He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”

Truths self-evident no more.

The domestic and international dynamics of the early days of the Civil War.

Ultimately, only a civic culture alert to and upset by abuses of power can safeguard sound republican government.

For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.

In the summer of 1842, young Abraham Lincoln’s razor-sharp wit almost got him into a whole heap of trouble.

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War.

Often, the proper scope of the First Amendment can be determined only by considering both text and context.

Two new books explore the messy complexities of immigration—from the era of Lincoln to Irish New York.

American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?

On the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it's not that simple.

Douglass elaborated a political theory attuned to the differential character of law as it applied to slaves and other outlaws.

As the Supreme Court invents a law to negate all others, Chief Justice John Roberts now ranks just below Roger Taney.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.