A Review of Volume II of Anton Chaitkin’s Who We Are By Nancy Spannaus* May 22, 2025–The United States is awash in pessimism today, reflected on all ...
Far be it for me to not do any research, but for the life of me I could not figure out who Gail is. Or was. Could be one of the two, I’m not totally ...
John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre. Drawing from glass-slide depiction c. 1865–75. (Public domain, Wikimedia ...
[I had originally planned a series on historical inaugurations this week, but I don’t imagine too many of us want to be thinking about the inauguration any ...
Why is Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but ...
One of the many letters Abraham Lincoln received after being elected president in November 1860 was from Alexander Stephens, a former congressional ...