
An Economist Repudiates Slavery With Dollars and Sense Arguments
John Elliott Cairnes' devastating critique of Southern society sinks the Confederacy's campaign to bond with Britain
John Elliott Cairnes' devastating critique of Southern society sinks the Confederacy's campaign to bond with Britain
While in London, Benjamin Franklin helps foment a plot involving a slave that contributes to the colonies' separation from Great Britain
In his first duel with Wendell Willkie, FDR campaigned against giant holding companies that soaked small electricity customers
Give credit for the national holiday to a woman who wouldn't give up
For its faults, the Electoral College has endured because it has fulfilled its main purpose—preventing stolen elections
Author explores the personalities of the men who argued Plessy v. Ferguson, one of the Supreme Court's worst decisions
After 750 attempts to reform or eradicate it, the system remains in place
The ambitious Ohio Republican dreaded being caught up with congressmen in complicated railroad scheme
Polarized partisanship, deep animosity among candidates, worry about the peaceful transfer of power—sound familiar?
A new edition introduces historian Richard Hofstadter to the conspiracy theory generation
Historian Preston argues that Stalin did not actually make patsies of Roosevelt and Churchill
Adams’s air in John Singleton Copley’s portrait suggests what it would have been like to have to face Adams in person.
When Hollywood and its hoopla encountered a new set of hoops
An act meant to protect women wound up being a cudgel against common adulterers and men on the FBI's blacklist
Ungovernable guerrilla Thomas Sumter helped his straitlaced commander win the American Revolution in the South
How an 'ill-armed peasantry' beat the daylights out of Clinton, Cornwallis, and a raft of professional soldiers