Eric Foner

Two historians weigh in on President Obama's move to designate a national monument to Reconstruction in South Carolina.

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.

The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island.

The National Parks Service, which preserves many Civil War sites, is finally looking for a way to mark the struggles that defined its legacy.

David Brion Davis’s philosophical history.

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.