How a trip to New Orleans radicalized young Abraham Lincoln

Best-selling author David M. Rubenstein and historian Douglas Brinkley discuss America's tumultuous 19th century and why ...
Smithsonian Magazine

At a Pivotal Moment of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass Delivered a Speech That Reframed What Was at Stake if Slavery Stood

In “The Mission of the War,” America’s incomparable orator helped turn public sentiment in favor of the Union and Abraham ...