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 ...

To a great extent, then, we live in Lincoln’s America as much as anyone else’s. Which makes it supremely ironic that the ...

In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about 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 ...

Sen. Tim Kaine called former Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and John Kennedy theocrats for believing rights come from God.

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

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

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