Abraham Lincoln

Recovering black radicalism.

The undefeatable South.

As the 150th of the Battle of Gettysburg approaches, it's time to question the popular account of a war that tore apart the nation.

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

The Atlantic’s editor endorsed Abraham Lincoln for presidency in the 1860 election, correctly predicting it would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.”

What's up at the NatC Conference.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

Colonel Elmer Ellsworth's death marked a turning point in how the nation honored the fallen.

A sweeping new history explores facial hair as a proving ground for notions about gender, race, and rebellion.

What J.D. Vance excludes from the history of the Civil War and immigration.

Where they come from, how they've evolved, and how they could change.

It depends on how you read the Declaration’s “self-evident” truths.

The progress we have seen toward civil rights for all Americans is inseparable from the history of classical liberalism.

Thomas Jefferson's limited government ideal quickly conflicted with the U.S. Constitution and the dominant Federalist Party, prompting a radical proposal.

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

The making of a myth.

The Fugitive Slave Act erased the most basic of constitutional rights for enslaved people and incentivized US Commissioners to support kidnappers.

What the Constitution asks of us.

“Only two states wanted a civil war—Massachusetts and South Carolina.”