Aug 21
How to make a state? Three ways to redraw the U.S.A.
This month, a group of residents of Pima County, Arizona, launched a campaign to break away from Arizona and become the fifty-first state. What are the odds it succeeds?
Jun 19
Juneteenth: An Important Celebration
Juneteenth marks the days in 1865 when the Union Army brought news of emancipation to African Americans in one of the farthest corners of the Confederate States.
May 9
Drew Gilpin Faust on the Civil War: The work of death
Even though “we all have our dead,” and even though we all die, we do so differently from generation to generation and from place to place.
Jan 30
Congress and the Constitution’s 225th Anniversary
The Framers regarded Congress as so important they put it first, as Article I, Section 1. What was seen then as the keystone of republican government is now widely regarded as the “broken branch.”
Jan 27
James Buchanan’s presidential senioritis
On the eve of the Civil War, President James Buchanan was like a high school student with a bad case of senioritis. Buchanan could not wait to leave office.
