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.