Explores the political dilemmas of the Civil War: the status of slavery and race in the American founding, the tension between morality and constitutionalism, a

Professor Mendle situates each of Parker's significant tracts in its polemical, intellectual, and political context.

One of the most influential philosophers of liberalism turns his attention to the complexity of Lincoln’s political thought. At the center of Lincoln’s care

From James I's Address Before Parliament (1610) to Joseph R. Biden, Jr.'s Learned Hand Dinner Address Before the American Jewish Committee (2005), this two-volu

The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and industry and to