Just in time for President’s Weekend and the February 12 birthday of the 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a new book traces how the Civil War leader talked about democracy throughout his career.

Disenchanted with the current state of the nation, historian Allen C. Guelzo set out to inquire into Abraham Lincoln’s faith in democracy. Not only did President Lincoln lead the nation into and out ...

For Americans, I suppose, democracy is an ancient faith, even if the history of the American polity runs less than 300 years. In an “Author’s Note,” Allen C. Guelzo calls this a “time of shadows” in ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to historian Allen Guelzo about his book, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment. The historian Allen Guelzo begins a new book by saying he has ...

Can democracy in America be saved? One way to answer that question is to look backwards to our greatest time of crisis and to the president, Abraham Lincoln, who navigated us through it. How did ...

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - As Americans on Tuesday mark the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, which remains one of the best-known pieces of political oratory in the nation's ...

In “Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 9), Allen Guelzo draws conclusions about Lincoln’s church attitudes without noting the president’s experience at the New York Avenue ...

Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. No one has contributed more to our nuanced ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. War Department implemented a new military policy for African American troops in combat. This policy, how the country learned from it, ...