Winter 2009

As we approach the bicentennial of his birth, leading historians look at the man and his achievements

The president takes charge and directs a successful amphibious landing at Hampton Roads

Would the disastrous Reconstruction era have taken a different course?

Speculators caused a stock market crash in 1792, forcing the federal government to bail out New York bankers— and the nation

Even though he had no military training, Lincoln quickly rose to become one of America’s most talented commanders

Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers that indicates Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.

The prairie lawyer president and outspoken abolitionist formed an unusual friendship

Our most talented writer-president always wrote his own material and sweated hours over it