Abraham Lincoln would likely be disappointed to learn that more Americans today identify as political independents than as either Democrats or Republicans. As Matthew Pinsker argues in his landmark ...

The theme for Santa Clara’s presentations honoring America’s 250th anniversary is the Civil War.  In the latest lecture at ...

It was 1859. The analogies to the current state of American politics are not precise and even paradoxical. To begin with, John Brown, though crazy and bloodthirsty, was on the right side of history.