Hemingses of Monticello Toy One cannot truly understand how

One cannot truly understand how the battle of Cold Harbor played out unless one also understands how the armies got there

Michael Vorenberg discusses how Lincoln shepherded through the House of Representatives the resolution sending the Thirteenth Amendment to the states for ratification

Much of the recent revisionist history about Abraham Lincoln relies on selective sources that provide a false image of the man

Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration—an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent by any means necessary

May 17–22

Hemingses of Monticello Toy One cannot truly understand howThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon Reed Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: [A] commanding and important book.Jill Lepore, The New Yorker In the mid 1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg. The woman, whose name is unknown and who is believed to have been born in Africa, was