Author

Herman Belz

Herman Belz is professor of history at the University of Maryland and author of Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era (Fordham University Press).

Articles by Herman Belz

Selling the Framers Short

Selling the Framers Short

Since its publication in 1913, Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States has sparked controversy.
A More Perfect Union

A More Perfect Union

John Quincy Adams and the recovery of the foundations of American constitutionalism.
Visions and Revisions

Visions and Revisions

Foner's themes are the politics of historical understanding and the relationship between the historian and his own world.