Timeline: The Abolition of the Slave Trade
William Wilberforce waged a long campaign to convince Britain to abolish the slave trade.
British Textiles Clothe the World
How did Britain come to dominate the global production of cloth?
By Claire Hopley
John C. Calhoun: The Man Who Started the Civil War
If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War, it was John C. Calhoun—genius pragmatist, and racist.
Abraham Lincoln: Tyrant, Hypocrite or Consummate Statesman
The key to understanding Abraham Lincoln's philosophy of statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice.
