In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.

In August, history professor Michael Birkner gave a short speech in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, near where President ...

Less than a mile from where Abraham Lincoln called for a “new birth of freedom,” a landmark effort is under way to bring to ...

This new volume focuses on how the best minds of the “Second Founding” generation saved the Union and improved the Constitution. Mr. Amar continues his documentary approach, filling his book with the ...

From Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy, and from Malcolm X to Martin Luther King Jr., America’s story has too often been ...

We're losing living connections to past events and valuable perspectives of older generations that help shape our ...

Over 60 years after its release, the Moynihan report remains the most consequential—and controversial—analysis of the black ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died Memorial Day weekend, 2025, in a Richmond, Va., nursing home. His death made few headlines beyond ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died Memorial Day weekend, 2025, in a Richmond, Va., nursing home. His death made few headlines beyond ...

Three people were killed in a murder-suicide shooting near a middle school in Illinois on Tuesday. A male suspect fired a rifle into another vehicle near Lincoln Middle School in Berwyn at around 4.05 ...

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died Memorial Day weekend, 2025, in a Richmond, Va., nursing home. His death made few headlines beyond ...

Charlie Kirk was the best of us. He called Arizona home, and we were fortunate to have him the short time we did. No one ...