Author

Allen C. Guelzo

Allen C. Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institution at Princeton University, a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, and the author, most recently, of Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy and the American Experiment (Alfred A. Knopf).

Articles by Allen C. Guelzo

Black Dan

Black Dan

Dan Webster was the greatest actor that ever trod the American political stage.
Bleak Nation

Bleak Nation

Our colonial past was not beautiful, but it was also not more destructive than many other pasts.
Founders’ Son

Founders’ Son

Abraham Lincoln never let himself forget that he stood on the shoulders of the American Founders.
The Left Side of History

The Left Side of History

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.
Slavery All the Way Down

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

The Logic of Liberty

A review of The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by David Brion Davis
Terrorist Or Madman?

Terrorist Or Madman?

John Brown was not insane, and we underestimate his rationality very much at our peril.

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