Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, And Transatlantic Activism

Beyond the Water\u27s Edge: Ida B. Wells and the Renewal of Transatlantic Activism In what may have been the darkest period of race relations after the Civil War, the mid-1890s, a flaring light of exposure and protest burst forth when Ida B. Wells published her exposures of lynch law and its connecti...

Lincoln\u27s Sense of Humor

Review of: Lincoln\u27s Sense of Humor by Richard Carwardin

The Last Lincoln Republican: The Election of 1880.

Benjamin Arrington seeks to rescue it from that forlorn eminence, or, rather the career of its winner and the part that he played in it. In doing so, he offers hints that James A. Garfield’s barely-begun presidency might have renewed his party’s commitment to equal rights for all

Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Politics of Apportionment

Review of: "Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Politics of Apportionment," by Peter H. Argersinger

Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic

An Updated Look at Senator Fessenden William Pitt Fessenden was a senator’s senator. Dyspeptic, diligent, incorruptible and on some subjects indispensable, an aggressive debater and constructive force in committee, the Maine Republican came close to what the Founders must have envisione...