President Lincoln was a statesman. John Brown was a radical. That’s the traditional view of how each...
Abraham Lincoln
On Inauguration Day, Lincoln’s procession to the Capitol was surrounded by heavily armed cavalry and infantry. Introduction...
Chase continued to pursue the presidency, seeking the Democratic nomination in 1868 and the Liberal Republican nomination...
The Court was a ‘partisan creature’ and President Lincoln and the Republican Party remade it so that...
Lincoln was that rare bird, a man who dealt in moral ideas without falling into moralism and...
Seeing Lincoln’s nationalism from an unlikely, and fresh, perspective: its connection, via the Enlightenment, to classical antiquity....
Lincoln was presiding over a bloody civil war with waning popularity. But he steadfastly rejected pleas to...
The meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation, for those at the time and for us today. As he...
The timing of the assassination made Easter Sunday 1865 a particularly important—and confusing—occasion. Shot on Good Friday...
Lincoln expertly managed leading politicians, related well with the people, and dealt clearly with the military. Introduction...
His death prompted a quite extraordinary explosion of mourning around the world. Introduction Abraham Lincoln yearned to...
It was only midway through the war that Lincoln reached the conclusion that abolishing slavery would preserve...
Although Lincoln’s image in this and the British comic press was typically pejorative, there were moments of...
Monroe was instrumental in shaping the modern literary treatment of Abraham Lincoln. Introduction In 1919, when Harriet...
Habeas corpus can constitutionally be suspended – the question is by whom, Congress or the President? By...
Americans in the deepest sense went to war in 1861 to resolve the nature of the Union...
Lincoln was a Whig for more years than he was a Republican, and a loyal Whig too....
They asked voters to sort through mounds of partisan propaganda and do whatever necessary to understand the...
Herndon would have sympathized with the contemporary journalist who dryly remarked that John Wilkes Booth’s fatal bullet...
Lincoln has generally been absent as a model in European social and public life, rarely emphasized as...
The exponential growth of his popularity built into a memorial crescendo. Lincoln’s ascension to the status of...
Mathew Brady’s photographs of Lincoln were one of the major sources for press illustrations in both Europe...
Exploring his evolving rhetorical ability that enabled him to grow from a political party operative into a...
This gift from America to Scotland can be understood as a symbol of Gilded Age transatlantic relations....
Imagining what might have happened is natural. In reflecting on the legacy of the American Civil War,...
Many questions linger regarding the process and motivations of Lincoln’s burial in Springfield. By Dr. Jeremy PrichardHistorian,...
Many Americans mistakenly believe that Abraham Lincoln enjoyed nearly universal support Many Americans mistakenly believe that Abraham...
The problem with mixing religion and politics was that political issues became moral issues and, therefore, more...
Lincoln deserves far more credit than he has received as an architect of American constitutional law. Introduction...
The founders were an essential political and cultural touchstone in the election of 1864. “Four score and...