4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...

Activists today can learn from John Brown’s raid on a federal arsenal and from the Black abolitionists who inspired him.

Even during the Civil War — our country’s most ... by a tiny minority who trampled on American values to stay rich. But many Americans saw the 1860 election as an opportunity to turn the ...

This media landscape helped bring about the Civil War ... but as American rates of literacy rose, millions of ordinary ...

Lincoln’s election was followed by the secession of several southern states which led to the Civil War. Republican Abraham ... presidential elections in American history: 1800, 1824, 18 ...

This month’s submissions include a rare 19th-century American lithograph, an early Missouri coin silver mustard ladle, and a midcentury cabinet radio/record player, all descended through families.

“Tulsa civic leaders clung to conservative estimates,” writes historian Tim Madigan, but “the number of the dead no doubt climbed well into the hundreds, making the burning in Tulsa the deadliest ...

America is mired in a period of mediocre executive leadership. One-term presidents don’t tend to accomplish as much but, it ...

“The Civil War was so fascinating ... deal with the vast territories the U.S. had amassed during the Mexican American War: California entered the Union as a free state, but the citizens of ...

The essays in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 offer a new approach to the antebellum era, one that frames the age not merely as the precursor to the Civil War but as indispensable for ...

4:1 — The ratio of people who attended church weekly to those who voted in the 1860 election 2.5 — Approximate percentage of the American population that died in the Civil War 7 million ...