Two weeks ago in these pages, I discussed Allen Guelzo’s recent book, published on February 6, 2024, entitled, “Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment.” In it, the Civil ...

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 ...

Around 30 years ago there was a school of thought that humankind had arrived at, in Francis Fukuyama's notable phrase, "the end of history." With the ascendancy of Western liberal democracy after the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The historian Allen Guelzo begins a new book by saying he has lived in a time of shadows. My long life, he writes, has been a hurdle race of public agonies. What once seemed like the end of history, ...