1868 and All That
July 24, 2018 · Magazine, Politics, culture
Was the 14th Amendment a new Constitution?
Civil War and Lincoln Historian
Allen C. Guelzo
6 articles 2015–2018
Allen C. Guelzo is a prominent Civil War era historian and Lincoln scholar, currently a senior research scholar at Princeton University's James Madison Program. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on topics including Abraham Lincoln, the Electoral College, and key episodes in 19th-century American political history such as the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He is the author of several award-winning books on Lincoln and the Civil War period.
Impeaching Johnson
May 4, 2018 · Features, Impeachment, Allen C. Guelzo
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the Senate put the president on trial. Nobody emerged with his reputation enhanced.
The Trial That Didn’t Happen
April 13, 2018 · Allen C. Guelzo, Civil War, Features
Did Robert E. Lee commit treason?
Statesmanship and Mr. Lincoln
February 9, 2018 · Abraham Lincoln, Magazine, Allen C. Guelzo
Statesmanship, like its popular cousin leadership, is an elusive quality to identify, if only because it varies from the context of one political order to another. In monarchies and dictatorships, the lines of a society are drawn horizontally, with classes of elites, the military, and bureaucrats…
Is the Electoral College Doomed?
December 15, 2017 · 2016 Elections, Founding Fathers, Donald Trump
Every four years we elect a president. And every four years someone emits a squeak of protest that the method we use for electing presidents under the Constitution—the Electoral College—is unfair, undemocratic, antiquated, or unpopular and should therefore be eliminated. Most of the time, this is…
Democracy and Nobility
January 5, 2015 · Revolution, Features, Allen C. Guelzo
Americans love revolutions. Our national identity began with a revolution, and a revolutionary war that lasted for eight years; and we cheer on other people’s revolutions, as though we find satisfaction in multiplying our own. “I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing & as…