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Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact th...

Mr. Speaker, mr. Vice president , members of the 94th congress, and distinguished guests, 26 years ago a freshman congressman, a young fellow, with lots of idealism who was out to change the world, stood before sam rayburn in the well of the house and solemnly swore to the same oath that all of you took yesterday. An unforgettable experience. And i congratulate you all. Two days later that same freshman stood at the back of this great chamber. Over there someplace. As president truman, all charged up by his singlehanded election victory, reported as the constitution requires on the state of th...

The Labour MP and party historian on why he worries for Keir Starmer, the decline of social democracy, and his love of Seamus Heaney

These falsehoods about the past distort the present and serve to undermine national unity and stifle progressive change toward racial equality. History is under attack.

Since its emergence as an independent state in 1991, Ukraine has made little progress in consolidating democratic rule. A powerful oligarchy has dominated the country’s politics and economy. Corrupti…