Abraham Lincoln

Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way to Texas.

What would-be killers of the US commander in chief have in common is that they aren’t fervent ideologues; they’re outcasts.

It’s difficult to see how these profound antipathies and fears will dissipate soon through any normal political processes.

The one-room schoolhouse that was one of the birthplaces of the GOP.

The Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law.

A new book conveys in dramatic detail what America’s Moses did to help abolish slavery. Another addresses the love of God and country that helped her do so.

Alan Taylor’s case for thinking of it as a continental conflict.

The story of how Harriet Tubman led 150 African American soldiers to rescue over 700 former slaves freed five months earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.

A firsthand account of freedom’s earliest celebrations.

We compiled Reconstruction-era documents to identify 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans given land—only to have it returned to their enslavers.

Yuval Levin urges us to take America’s greatest constitutional thinker, James Madison, as our lodestar.

Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.

They called themselves the Wide Awakes. They are a lesson in building a political movement.

Why our understanding of the era has been hindered by the party system model.

A classic New Yorker account of the Henry Ward Beecher adultery trial recalls a time in America that seems both incomprehensible and familiar.

Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s struggle against polio transformed him into the man who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II.

Since colonial times, the Book of Esther has proved a powerful metaphor in American politics.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.