Doris Kearns Goodwin’s strength is in the way she captures the presidential scene with companionable prose that most professional historians are unable to capture.

For Ulysses S. Grant, history has finally decided to be kind.

Larry Madaras reviews "The Evangelicals: An Essential History for the Struggle to Shape America" by Frances Fitzgerald.

'Shadow Warrior,' by Randall B. Woods

John Burt analyzes in detail the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.