This year, the candidate leading on election night may not ultimately be declared the winner. That’s where the problems started in 1876.
John Bicknell
Richard Ellis shows that there was much more to the 1840 presidential contest than hard cider and log cabins.
Two new books carry Abraham Lincoln across the country and toward apotheosis.
Dickens’ and de Tocqueville’s travels in 19th century America still provide a guide for understanding today’s divisive politics.
The historian has written another fine book about the American past, but the “woke” historians and reviewers feel triggered by him.