Bleak Nation
Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also not more destructive than many other pasts.
Articles by Allen C. Guelzo
The Antislavery Project
Abraham Lincoln and the anti-slavery movement.
Founders’ Son
Abraham Lincoln never let himself forget that he stood on the shoulders of the American Founders.
The Left Side of History
Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.
The Market Whisperer
Walter Bagehot was an exercise in paradox.
Who Tells Our Story?
Where are the historians ready to restore America's vision?
Patriotism vs. Multiculturalism
With responses from David Azerrad, Matthew Continetti, Allen C. Guelzo, and Roger Kimball.
Storm of Insurrection
Frederick Douglass is a man of stark binaries and apparent paradoxes.
Harry and Me
Harry V. Jaffa's lasting influence.
The Golden Legend of the Democratic Party
Progress through presidential leadership.
Bullwhip Feudalism
The kings of the Confederacy.
In a Gilded Cage
The manufactured misery of Richard White's Gilded Age.
Defending Reconstruction
The revolt of the bourgeoisie.
Slavery and Emancipation
Allen C. Guelzo and Patrick Rael discuss "self-emancipation" and slavery
Up From Slavery
Did the American slaves liberate themselves?
Lincoln, Religion, & the American Founding
Richard Brookhiser, Lucas Morel, and Allen Guelzo debate Lincoln and religion.
Slavery All the Way Down
A review of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist
The Logic of Liberty
A review of The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by David Brion Davis
A New Birth of Freedom
The Gettysburg Address at 150.
The Bicentennial Lincolns
A man for his time, our time, or all times?
Lincoln’s Audition
Revisiting the Cooper Union speech and Lincoln's ascent to the presidency.
Washing Mud from Marble
Conservative philosophy must do better at vindicating America's greatest president.
States’ Rights and Wrongs
Reviewing a new history of the secession crisis.
Good Democrats and Bad Democrats
How little the Democratic Party has changed since Jackson's day.
The Lincoln Bedroom
Seven scholars assess C.A. Tripp's The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln.
Learning to Love the Federalists
Jefferson's opponents were awkward but indispensable.
Terrorist Or Madman?
John Brown was not insane, and we underestimate his rationality very much at our peril.