Abraham Lincoln

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.

The images, diaries, and ephemera in Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation.

It’s important to remember why analogies to Jesus should stay out of the political realm. The results are always ugly.