Winter 2009

Even though he had no military training, Lincoln quickly rose to become one of America’s most talented commanders.

Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers which indicates that Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.

As we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, leading historians look at the man and his achievements.

The former prairie-lawyer and then-president and the ex-slave and outspoken abolitionist formed an unusual friendship.

Our most talented writer-president always wrote his own material and labored for hours over it.

The president takes charge and directs a successful amphibious landing at Hampton Roads.

Would the disastrous Reconstruction era have taken a different course?

Speculators caused a stock market crash in 1792, forcing the federal government to bail out New York bankers— and the nation.