Salmon P. Chase

A new book chronicles the life of the 19th century political giant of Salmon Chase.

Exploring the role mainline Protestants have played in promoting the idea of America as a Christian country.

A measure almost made the Republican Party’s 2024 Texas primary ballot to measure whether party members would support secession from the United States.

Three years later, amid another national election, the American public is still slow to understand the enormity of January 6, 2021.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration demonstrated that a progressive agenda and effective anti-inflationary measures could overlap.

Political contests over the ideological slant of the Court are nothing new.

At the time of the Civil War, many Americans revered the nation’s Founding Fathers, and both supporters and opponents of slavery recruited them to their sides.

If RFK is confirmed, he is likely to fail for reasons similar to those for past political choices for the cabinet.

How we calculate inflation has always been a subject of debate. Small changes that might seem trivial lead to enormous changes in how well-off we think we are.

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

The President's spiritual journey transformed him and the nation.

After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis, was to be tried for treason. Does the debacle hold lessons for the trials awaiting Donald Trump?

James Oakes’s deeply researched book argues that two very different readings of the 1787 charter put the United States on a course of all but inevitable conflict.

Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences.

Roscoe Conkling was a successful politician and an able lawyer. But the colorful and irascible senator had no desire to serve on the high court.

Recent books by Woody Holton and Alan Taylor offer fresh perspectives on early US history but overstate the importance of white supremacy as its driving force.

While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.

The pre-Civil War North was a landscape not of unremitting white supremacy but of persistent struggles over racial justice by both Blacks and whites.

The idea that justices exist outside of politics is a relatively new concept.