Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Noted historian and author Allen Guelzo will be the featured speaker at the Abraham Lincoln Association Birthday Banquet on Feb.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Noted historian and author Allen Guelzo will be the featured speaker at the Abraham Lincoln Association Birthday Banquet on Feb. 12 in Springfield. The banquet, which marks Abraham Lincoln's 217th ...