Allen C. Guelzo

A detailed look on Abraham Lincoln's political philosophy on slavery, ownership, and freedom.

Lincoln's understanding of the preconditions for genuine democracy, and of its necessity, were rooted in this rich soil. And with his help, ours could be, too.

Lin­coln’s interactions with black Americans provides a valuable resource for understanding a more farseeing Lincoln than the voices of despair have described.

The question of how to balance state and national power was perhaps the single most important and most challenging question confronting the early republic.

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

A review of Robert Elder's new biography of John C. Calhoun.

A new biography of William Tecumseh Sherman questions his reputation as the brutal "prophet of total war."

On the aesthetics and history of the Freedman’s Memorial in Washington, D.C.

He prized self-control above all, but did not always achieve it.

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.