Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

On Presidents’ Day each year, it has been my wont to regret the holiday’s celebration of insipid ubiquity. Instead of ...

What makes a “bad” President of the United States? These 10, including the current incumbent, have all had their faults, ...

Here’s the connection between our roads and the men for whom they’re named and why we we ended up with so many.

While some Republicans want to put Donald Trump onto Mt. Rushmore, historians often change their views of presidents over ...

"The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies" takes an in-depth look at the position of first lady. While many books exist to tell the story of individuals, the new work examines the job from ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...

Harding (1921-1923), James Buchanan (1857-1861) and Franklin Pierce (1853-1857 ... and the challenge posed by ending slavery. He reunited the nation, winning the war and ultimately leading to the end ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

To voters desiring slavery’s continuation or wary of slavery’s national divisiveness, the Buchanan-King friendship was a model for national compromise over slavery. The masculinity of each was ...