US President or American Caesar?
American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?
Abraham Lincoln
What are the Enduring Legacies of the American Civil War?
What did the violence in the bloodiest conflict in US history yield in the postwar era?
The Changing Face of the Republican Party
The contrast between Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump could hardly be more striking, but such is the continually evolving politics of the Grand Old Party.
The Death of John Wilkes Booth
The man who killed Abraham Lincoln was shot dead on 26 April, 1865.
Jefferson Davis and the Collapse of the Confederacy
Arnold Whitridge on the former Senator from Mississippi, who led the Government of the South during the Civil War in the United States.
Lincoln and Fort Sumter
It is not the least tragedy of a tragic life that Lincoln was obliged to face the most terrible decision of all, before he had grown to the full height of his Presidential stature.
The Causes of the American Civil War
Taking a historiographical angle, Marcus Cunliffe describes how, in 1861, the American federal experiment broke down, and there ensued the greatest and most hard-fought of modern wars before that of 1914.
The American Civil War: A North-South Divide
The American Civil War was not a simple struggle between slaveholders and abolitionists, argues Tim Stanley.
The Long Road to Equality for African-Americans
John Kirk charts the progress of the civil rights movement through its most prominent body, the NAACP.
Last Lincoln v. Douglas Debate
The last of seven debates between the two Senate candidates took place on October 15th, 1858.