Lincoln and Domestic Policy

Review Essay: Law and Order in Lincoln’s America Mark S. Schantz   Writing in The American Historical Review in October 1972, historian Philip Shaw Paludan reflected on the forces that propelled the United States into civil war. It was easy...

Lincoln & the Franchise M. Kelly Tillery, Esq. “The most fundamental right in America is the right to vote—and to have it counted. And it’s under assault. In state after state, new laws have been passed, not only to suppress...

An Interview with Burrus M. Carnahan regarding His Book Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War (University Press of Kentucky, 2007) By Sara Gabbard Sara Gabbard:  Much has been written about the Emancipation Proclamation and Lincoln’s...

Toward a More Modest Conception of the Presidency by Jon D. Schaff Charles and Mary Beard, in The Rise of American Civilization, make the claim that the Civil War constituted a “Second American Revolution.” The noted historian James McPherson, in...